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A highlight from Called to Catch Men
"Well is there not a world of instruction for us here? First of all, do what Jesus says. Do what he says. Nevertheless, at thy word, we will cast down our nets. Keep preaching the word. Preach to myself. Keep casting the net. When doubts come, you resolve them here. When you're tired, when you're frustrated, when you're deposed, when you catch nothing for weeks, for months, for years. It's not easy but it's simple. Do what Jesus says. Keep casting the net of the Gospel. And believe that he has power to bring the fish in. And believe him when he says that his word will not return unto him void. Because he really has power over the hearts of men to bring them into the net or the advance of his kingdom. Those who would catch men must ultimately learn their art here. From the ministry of Christ himself who was preaching the word everywhere he went, to everyone he met. May God give us grace as a church to do so. Let's stand for prayer. O Lord our God Most High, we thank you for the glory of Christ. Some here today have seen it, some have not. Maybe some who have heard the call that comes on the back of it are now shutting their eyes to it. Lord there's something compelling here. That we have to present ourselves like Isaiah and Peter and others. That we would lay our life before you and say what would you have me to do. Too often we come and we tell you what we will do, what we're willing to do. It's not the Christian response, what would thou have me to do. Make our sons and use them for the glory of thy name and the preaching of your word. And we pray that knowing Lord that that might mean huge things for our family. That they could be thrust to the furthest ends of the earth to preach the gospel. And yet we know that such a thing would be good. We pray Lord that you would give us a burden for souls. That we would see ourselves collectively as a church, as net casters. And that we would go forth seeking the lost that we might bring them to Jesus. That you would make us not to be weary in well doing knowing that in due time we should reap if we faint not. Lord, kill in our hearts our stupid notions of building our own kingdom. Crucify them, crucify them O God. And replace that with a burning and singular desire. To seek first thy kingdom, whatever that means. We lay all of our boats and our nets, whatever they are, at thy feet today. And if you would have us continue to use them, we'll use them. We'll be diligent in our calling. But we leave it all at thy feet. We pray that you would lead and guide for Jesus' sake. Amen.
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A highlight from Zechariah Evangelism
"Good morning. Our third Sunday sermon series through Zechariah is coming to a close here. I'm not sure if we'll have another message after this one. Usually, after I get to the end of a book, we'll go back and do a review message, which was last month, and then a message relating, whatever the book was, to evangelism. So that's today. Zechariah evangelism. And so let's pray that God will bless us today. Lord God, we thank you that all of your Word is an evangelistic tool, for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. And we know that we see scriptures that we can identify better as evangelistic, but we know that all of your Word is truth, and truth convicts of sin, and conviction of sin then can lead to repentance. And so we pray, Lord, that you would make us wise evangelists. And so help us in that today. We ask it for Jesus' sake. Amen. The book of Zechariah is a revelation or a revealing of Jesus the Messiah. As such, it is a good resource for evangelism. Today we utilize Zechariah for evangelism in the form of a letter to an unbelieving friend. So I hadn't done this before, so it may seem a little bit strange. It's going to seem a little strange to me. But I have always found that evangelism encourages the saints to say, well, I don't need to come to faith in Christ, but I love hearing, well, it's kind of like the hymn, isn't it? I love to tell the story. I love to hear the story of unseen things above. And so if it just falls flat, then I know you all will still love me. And you'll just say, don't do that again. That was silly. Just send your letter to your friend and preach us a regular message, OK, if it doesn't work out. But I think it's going to encourage you. OK. Kids speak. Kids, what book are we looking at today? Zechariah. What are we going to do with Zechariah today? We're going to use it to write a letter to a friend telling them how important it is to trust Jesus. So I sent you an email with this without anything but the letter. So if you actually wanted to use it and instead of friend put somebody's name, you could do that. Dear friend, would you allow me to share some observations about a certain book in the Bible? I have found this book particularly beneficial, and I believe you may benefit from its content as well. It's the book of Zechariah, the second to the last book in our English Old Testament. God showed Zechariah some strange things, and probably many today would think he wasn't quite in his right mind when he saw them. But all his visions had their basis in what Moses and the preceding prophets had been shown. First, though, a little historical setting for the book. It was written when the Jews came back from captivity in Babylon. God had allowed his own people to be defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. That was because they had done just about everything he had told them not to do and had stopped doing the things they were supposed to do. As Zechariah reminded his audience, the Lord of Heaven's assembly said, exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other. You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the resident foreigner, or the poor, nor should anyone secretly plot evil against his fellow citizen. But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear. Indeed, they made their hearts as hard as diamond so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord of Heaven's assembly had sent by his spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord of Heaven's assembly has poured out to great wrath. You can see that God had given them very sensible directions for treating each other right. Who would not agree that these rules were fair and just? Yet they had turned a deaf ear mistreating one another. And even though we agree that compassion and helping the disadvantaged are right, would it take much digging to where we too have turned a deaf ear to divine instructions? Kids speak. Kids, God gives us the rules for how to treat each other right. But have we broken those rules? Yeah. Do we need God to forgive us? Zechariah had opened his message with a similar reminder. He didn't place the responsibility in the past. Rather, he laid the impetus to respond on his own generation. Therefore, say to the people, the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, turn to me, says the Lord of Heaven's armies, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, this is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly has said, turn now from your evil wickedness. But they would by no means obey me, says the Lord. God told the people to turn to him, even though it appeared that they had already started obeying God again, since they had made the dangerous journey from Babylon to rebuild a burned -down Jerusalem, the walls of which had been completely leveled, exposing them to dangerous enemies. But God saw that their hearts were still not turned to him. Even though they were facing many difficult and discouraging circumstances, God knew that no obstacle could be greater than having their attention divided from him. Kid Speed, if we obey some things, God says, does that mean we obey everything he says? No. All of us probably could say we obey some things. He told them if they turned to him, he would turn to them. Well, that's certainly a square deal. Before God gave them into Babylon's hands, he had spent generations trying to turn them from their misdeeds. Now he was patiently starting over with them again. And how did they respond? Zechariah 1 .6, and they turned and said, the Lord of Heaven's assembly planned to do with us according to our ways, yes, according to our deeds, so he has dealt with us. God told them to turn, and they turned. Zechariah's audience responded favorably to his message of repentance, at least at first. They took responsibility for their waywardness, and they accepted God's gracious invitation to fellowship, that he would turn to them as well. Now they were ready to hear how God would bring them a final deliverance from all danger. It would come through a single man. Kids speak. Kids, the people Zechariah was talking to knew that they hadn't done what God said, so they turned back to him. Is that what we should do, too? Come on, nod your head with me. They were rebuilding Solomon's temple, but Zechariah had a message of another temple that would have to be built if they were going to be finally saved, Zechariah 6 .12. This is what the Lord of Heaven's assembly says, here is the man whose name is the sprig. He will branch out from where he is and will rebuild the temple of the Lord. They were rebuilding the temple, so it must have been a surprise to hear about someone else who needed to come and build another new one. Ezra and Zerubbabel were leading the present rebuilding effort. Who was this other man in such a strange name, the sprig? But Zechariah and his colleagues had already been told about the sprig. They had already been told that the sprig had something to do with the priesthood. God had spoken to their own high priest, Joshua, not the Joshua of the book of Joshua, Zechariah 3 .8. Listen, high priest Joshua, you and those companions of yours who sit with you, for these men are a sign that I am presenting my servant the sprig. The very fact that God's people needed a new high priest every time the last one died showed that a final permanent priest was needed. The fact that they had a day of atonement every year showed that their sins were not being removed permanently. They needed a once for all payment for sin. That was apparently going to be the work of the sprig. And why call the sprig? Simply because he would start fresh. He wouldn't build onto the existing structure of the Levitical priesthood, and that is exactly what has come about. Jesus came from the tribe of Judah, not Levi. Yet he acted as a priest, offering himself as a sacrifice for sins. Kids, one of the names for Jesus in Zechariah is sprig. What's a sprig? Well, it's a plant when it first starts growing. Why was Jesus called sprig? Because he had to do everything over right from the start. We had messed everything up, so he had to start all over like a little sprig. God then immediately added a new name to Christ the sprig, calling him a stone. For he grew from his small beginning to become the sacrifice for sin, both permanent and solid qualities a stone represents. Zechariah 3 .9. Look, the stone that I put in place in Joshua's presence, on that one stone are seven eyes. And look, I will do the engraving myself, declares the Lord of Heaven's assembly. And I will remove the perversity of that land in a single day. There's one of the strange symbols of Zechariah, a stone with seven eyes. Of course, it's figurative. The mental image of a seven -eyed stone probably confuses us at first, but the stone is made less mysterious in light of the engraving, an engraved stone. The eyes most simply symbolize sight. Really the most elusive aspect of the image is the seven. That one takes a little bit of biblical familiarity. We find by induction, looking at places where seven occurs, that seven connotes completeness. So seven eyes indicate complete sight. The stone then is a figurative way to tell us that the Messiah would be omniscient. To see everything is to know everything. In other words, the Messiah would be God. Kids speak. Kids, another name for Jesus in Zechariah is the stone. Why is he a stone? Because he stays the same, like a rock, when he says he will save us. That word is as firm as a rock. Well, what about the engraving on the stone? Well, in light of the prompt removal of the land's perversity, the engraving is most likely the engraving of the land's perversity into the stone. It's an engraving God does himself. And isn't this what God the Father did when Jesus was on the cross, engrave his people's sins into him? Kids speak. Zechariah calls Jesus a rock that God carves on. Well, what did God carve into Jesus? Our sins. When our sins were carved into Jesus, did that take the sins away from us? Yep, carved onto him. That's how it works. This sprig who became the stone was God's way of explaining to Joshua the high priest what had just happened to him. So rewind to the beginning of the chapter, Zechariah 3, 1 through 4, and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of the Lord, and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him. But the Lord said to Satan, the Lord rebukes you, oh Satan, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you. Is this not a stick snatched from the fire? And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the messenger. And he answered and said to the one standing before him, saying, remove the filthy garments from him. And he said to him, see, I have taken away your guilt from you and will clothe you with rich garments. The high priest, the man in Israel who presided over the sacrifices for removing sin, he himself stood unclean before God. Satan was there accusing him. But God did not argue the basic fact of Joshua's defilement. No, in fact, God's rebuke of Satan got right to the matter of Joshua's deficiency. He called Joshua a stick snatched from the fire. Joshua was like a stick that was going to burn, but God had pulled him out of the fire. Kids, God said that Joshua the high priest was like a stick that was about to burn, but God pulled it out of the fire. Is that what God does when Jesus saves us? Pulls us out of hell? Yeah. We were headed right for hell. So, wow, we should really thank Jesus, shouldn't we? Ah, dear friend, I can tell you that describes me as well. I was a stick ready to burn, already as good as it ignited. Yes, that has me listening to God's words as closely as I'm sure Joshua was. Remove his filthy garments. Men on earth couldn't see the dirty clothing, but there in heaven we see the reality. Joshua already believed that he needed spiritual cleansing, otherwise he would not have made the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement for his own sins. But now he got to see how his defilement looked in God's presence. Satan didn't even have to lie, though he's good at it. A defiled Joshua was his exhibit A, and he needed no further proof. Friend, if the highest religious official amongst God's people was tarnished by sin, everyone else on earth was as well. The high priest needed the engraved stone to be engraved with his own sins. That's why God showed Joshua that vision, so that Israel's high priest could model for the nation their need to hope in God's final high priest. I have that same hope. I have trusted in Jesus of Nazareth as the sacrifice that covers my sin, dear friend. Kids, if Satan came before God and said, look at Pastor Cain, he's a dirty sinner, how can he be a Christian? What would God say? He would say, but I cleaned Pastor Cain up by what Jesus did on the cross. You can say the same thing for you, right? You may have noticed that I am referring to Jesus as both the high priest and the sacrifice. That is correct. He is both. If our sins were engraved into him, that makes him the sacrifice. But he was the one who offered himself up to be sacrificed. He is also the priest. In fact, Jesus fulfilled virtually every aspect of the temple, the furniture, its procedures, and the priests processing them. He puts the fill in fulfillment. I have been to your ear a long time. Thank you for your patience. I will bring this to an end. Zechariah 12, 10. And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer, then they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn over him. Jesus was a Jew, and he came to his countrymen first. They passed him by. But one day God promises that they will recognize him. Zechariah 13, 1. On that day, a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and from impurity. And they will recognize their Messiah. They will recognize what he did for them. Kids speak. Another thing Zechariah says Jesus is like is a well. Why is that? Well, because you can wash with water from a well just like you can have your sins washed away by Jesus' blood. Until then, that same well is open to all men. Zechariah 2, 11. Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. And here we are. Christ's saving message reaches more and more people groups year by year. But the end gathering will not last indefinitely. Christ will return to finalize his work on earth. Zechariah 14, 4. On that day, his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. That was the location from which he left the earth in the sight of his apostles ascending into heaven. That is where he has an appointment to return. Kids, where is Jesus right now? Heaven. Will he always stay there? No. He's coming back here to be king of everybody in the world. Oh, that'll be a great day, won't it? Dear friend, there is a sacrifice that washes away our sins and renews us. Do we need cleansing and new life? Zechariah, like the rest of scriptures, tells us that if we have dishonored God and broken his commandments, we need Jesus' purifying sacrifice. I pray to God that you will join me as one who confesses Christ as Lord and Savior. For the walking wounded, as 1 Thessalonians 5, 14 says, uphold the strengthless. It's easy to forget that when we first came to God, we were complete spiritual invalids. I think most of us continue to think, hmm, I don't think I've changed much since then, but we're supposed to mature. All scripture is profitable for teaching, for conviction. The gospel is good news. May fear not cause me to hesitate in telling it as though it were basically bad news. It does contain bad news, but the gospel is basically good news. If you just tell good news without contexting it with the bad news, unless the person already gives you that and says, oh, I'm a defiled sinner. What can I do? Well, of course, you can just march right into, here's the means of cleansing. But if not, you need to let them know that, yes, we are sinners headed for hell. But the gospel is basically good news, which is how we should present it. All scripture is profitable for correction. I will remember that the good news is what properly contexts the bad news of our sinfulness, our enmity with God, and our coming judgment. God justly put all these aside in the cross. And all scripture is profitable for teaching, conviction, correction, for schooling in righteousness. Nothing wrong with asking God to just drop witnessing opportunities into our lap rather than worrying about segues. How do I get from a regular conversation into a gospel conversation? And, of course, we want to be able to do segues, too. But in the meantime, it's a good thing to ask every day who knows who I'll meet today. Maybe the door will just swing wide open, and I need to be ready to walk in. Wrap up, Colossians 4, 5, and 6. You can see it on the left side there. Walk in wisdom toward those on the outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, having been seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. And then breaking it down phrase by phrase, walk in wisdom toward those on the outside. God give me a special wisdom like a person on a mission. Redeeming the time, God give me sufficient urgency. Let your speech be always with grace. God give me words that make good transitions to the gospel. Having been seasoned with salt, God give me a bright countenance and inviting words that you may know how you ought to answer each one. God give me increasing sensitivity to see particular burdens in the lives of others that I may point them to the burden -bearer. Amen. Let's pray. Lord God, thank you for your words. We pray, Lord, that you will grant a day of revival when the subject of God and of being right with God is simply part of the national conversation. And we know that you have done this before in days of revival, that people simply become curious again. And you pique their curiosity and we can simply walk right into witnessing situations. But until then, Lord, we pray that we would remember Colossians 4, 5, and 6, that we would walk in wisdom towards them, that we would seek out opportunities, that we would always have gracious speech, and that we would season it with salt and make it attractive. And that you might help us better and better to recognize needs in people's lives that will present the gospel's introduction. Lord, bless these, your people, all your people here on earth, worshiping you today. In Jesus' name, amen.
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A highlight from WM 290: Sermon Review: Five Dangers of Calvinism: Part 4
"Greetings and welcome to Word Magazine. This is Jeff Riddle, I'm the pastor of Christ Reformed Baptist Church in Louisa, Virginia. And in this episode of Word Magazine, we're going to be continuing and hopefully completing the series we've been doing recently of reviewing an anti -Calvinistic sermon. Now this sermon is preached by a man named Yankee Arnold. And we have been looking at this sermon that was titled Five Dangers of Calvinism. I've done three previous episodes and hopefully again this is going to be the fourth and last in this series. I was talking to some people at church on Sunday who were following this and including with the man who was really the reason for the series, a fellow who asked me what my reaction was to this video. Someone had shared it with him and I told him that I would try to do a review of it and so I've been doing that and it's been appreciated by him and I'm glad of that and he has given us some good ground for some conversation. In reviewing this video, we've seen that not only is there a question at stake about the sovereignty of God and salvation but also what the perseverance of saints is. If we persevere in the faith, is it our work or is it God's work? And we believe that both salvation and perseverance in the faith is a work of God. One of the other key things we have noted is the importance of the doctrine of regeneration. That when God saves a man, that he transforms him, he changes his heart. Like Lydia in Acts 16, the Lord opened her heart to heed the things that were spoken by Paul and so there's a change of heart, there's a change of nature. It's not complete in this life because we're not yet in the state of glory but there is a work of progressive sanctification and we sort of have uncovered this as we've gone through it. This is another aspect of the Bible's teaching that Pastor Arnold seems to be denying. Well again, I hope that we can listen in and complete this series today. I think there's about 11 or so minutes left and so without any further ado, I'm going to pull this up and let me just say once again, I've just got my Bible in front of me. I've got some notes. I have my second London Baptist confession of faith and also have a copy of a little book that I've written that's available on Amazon on the doctrines of grace, an introduction to the five points of Calvinism and if this is something you weren't previously aware of, a teaching in scripture you weren't aware of, I would commend my book to you. So let's go ahead and again see if we can pull up Pastor Arnold's message here on YouTube, Five Dangers of Calvinism. We're going to pick it up here about the 38 minute, 50 second mark and so let me just say where we are. You might remember if you listened to the last episode, he had been talking about Romans 9 and he had tried to give an alternative explanation to the understanding of the potter and clay image that Paul uses in Romans 9, beginning in verse 21. And he gave, I think, a very fanciful explanation of it. He said, it's not about the potter being sovereign over the clay, but it's really about the sovereignty of the clay. The clay can change itself. The clay can make itself malleable. The clay can allow the potter to work upon it. And I suggested the last time that that interpretation just doesn't work on a plain sense level. Paul was saying that God is like the potter and the potter is sovereign over the clay. The clay doesn't dictate to the potter, but the potter is sovereign and he takes the clay and shapes it and uses it as he wills.
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"Hi everyone, Laura here. This is the Unchained Recap for Day 2, October 4, of the criminal trial of Sam Pinkman -Fried. The U .S. Department of Justice started the criminal trial for Sam Pinkman -Fried this Wednesday afternoon by declaring in its opening statement that Pinkman -Fried deliberately lied his way toward, quote, wealth, power, and influence, allegedly stealing billions of dollars from thousands of individual people. The defense team for Pinkman -Fried, on the other hand, described the former FTX CEO as, quote, a math nerd and a, quote, hard worker who acted in good faith and took reasonable business actions during his time as FTX's founder and CEO. The opening statements from both sides occurred on the second day of the trial, following the finalization of the jury selection process earlier that morning. Pinkman -Fried's trial also saw testimonies from a former FTX customer and a longtime friend of the defendant. Overall, the prosecution's opening statement was cleaner and easier to follow, using simple words such as lied or stole repeatedly, and sentences like, Pinkman -Fried, quote, was using his company FTX to commit fraud on a massive scale, and the money he was spending to build his empire, it was money he was stealing from FTX's customers. It even referred to infamous tweets of SBS that he deleted, as well as testimony to Congress that contradicted what prosecutors allege actually occurred at FTX. The defense's opening, which brought up terms like margin loans, collateral, and liquidity, was harder to follow, even for someone familiar with crypto and this case. Chosen jurors included numerous people with professional backgrounds far from finance, such as a retired corrections officer, a trained conductor, a social worker, and a nurse. The only juror with a financial background was a retired investment banker with a Stanford MBA. However, Pinkman -Fried's attorney, Mark Cohen, also had some easier -to -follow moments in his opening. He called his client Sam and said the government's portrait of him had been, quote, almost a cartoon of a villain. Cohen also used some simpler statements, such as, quote, The first witness called by the prosecution was Marc -Antoine Julliard, an FTX customer who had lost roughly $150 ,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and fiat money he had deposited into or purchased on FTX. He explained the due diligence he conducted before deciding to use FTX and how his research on Pinkman -Fried led him to have a picture of SBF that was, quote, Julliard shared with the courtroom how, on November 6th and 7th, the days before FTX's insolvency became public, tweets by SBF stating that customer assets were safe assured Julliard so that he didn't try to withdraw any of his funds. The second person to testify was Adam Yadidia, who called himself a close friend of Pinkman -Fried's since their college days at MIT and who also worked at FTX as a software engineer at the time of its collapse and Alameda Research as a trader prior to that. Yadidia said he had resigned immediately from FTX upon learning that Alameda, Pinkman -Fried's crypto trading firm, had used FTX customer deposits to repay Alameda loans. Just before the trial closed for the day, Yadidia acknowledged he had been living with nine roommates, one of whom was SBF, in a luxurious penthouse in the Bahamas worth about $35 million. The 31 -year -old Pinkman -Fried currently faces seven felony charges ranging from wire fraud to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The trial will resume tomorrow at 9 .30 a .m. Eastern Time with a continuation of Yadidia's testimony. The government then stated that its next witnesses this week will likely include Matt Huang, co -founder and managing partner at Paradigm, and Gary Huang, former CTO of FTX. Unchained will be back with more updates tomorrow.
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"Cbs news on the hour is headed by indeed dot com i'm jennifer kyper the largest health care strike in american history is underway tens of thousands of kaiser permanente workers have walked off the job cbs's joe ling kent reports at dawn more than 75 000 workers at kaiser permanente walked out we're care taking of lives you know health care workers should be valued joining her on the picket lines pharmacists respiratory therapists optometrists and other technicians the union is asking for better working conditions and a 25 minimum wage kaiser has offered 21 to 23 an hour that's just above what fast food workers will soon make in california after house lawmakers voted out their speaker kevin mccarthy president biden says we need to change the poisonous atmosphere in you know we have strong disagreements but we need to stop seeing each other as enemies we need to to talk one another listen to one another work with one another congressman steve scolese and jim jordan are running for the position cbs's scott mcfarlane heard from republican new york congressman mike lawler the interim speaker north carolina's patrick mckenry had no answers on the days ahead the only certainty among most republicans their disdain for colleague matt gates who led the charge to remove mccarthy i think it was deplorable i think it was disgraceful and he put his own petty personal grievances ahead of the country continued to attack his colleagues senator diane feinstein's memorial service tomorrow will be still held outside san francisco city hall but it's no longer open to the public due to security issues the senator who died last week at age ninety light in state today casey bs is mike to all flag draped casket arrived at san francisco city hall by motorcade and was received by mayor london breed flanked by an honor guard city family inside a string quartet provided the track san francisco leaders all paying their respects one -by -one mourners stepped up to the casket like hannah she did so many great things for the city in the country i'd just had to pay my respects mike to wall for cbs news san francisco the man accused of being the mastermind in rapper tupac shakur's nineteen six ninety murder appears in a las vegas courtroom on murder charges after tupac shakur's murder twenty seven years ago the focus was on this las his courtroom as a handcuffed the wayne keepy d davis limped in for a judge and the world for the first time since the self -proclaimed gang member and drug kingpin and was charged
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Snapshot Integrates XMTP Notifications
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Wednesday, October 4th, 2023. Snapshot integrates XMTP notifications, DeFiSaver goes live on base, Polygon deploys Paul contracts on Gourley, and Perineal v2 goes live. All this and more starts right now. Snapshot integrated XMTP notifications into its off -chain governance voting platform. The integration provides users with an opt -in feature to receive notifications for DAO proposals. To sign up, users can send an XMTP message to chat .snapshot .eth and confirm their subscription. Users can choose which DAOs they want to receive notifications from by activating the bell icon on the DAOs snapshot page. The feature is compatible with any XMTP -enabled application, including Coinbase Wallet, and also supports gasless voting from the same application. Snapshot hopes that the new feature will address voter apathy. DeFiSaver is now live on base, with initial support for lending and borrowing on Aave v3 and Compound v3. Users on base can now access DeFiSaver's signature boost, repay, and single -click position creation features. Users can also swap through a DeFiSaver DEX aggregator bridge via a LeFi protocol integration and track their base portfolio. The implementation also supports simulation mode, a sandbox environment for users to test DeFiSaver's functionalities. Base marks the third roll -up supported by DeFiSaver, joining Optimism and Arbitrum. In the future, DeFiSaver plans to introduce automated strategies, a yield dashboard, and additional lending protocols. Polygon deployed contracts for the PAUL token on the Gorly testnet. The contracts prepare the token for compatibility with Polygon 2 .0 architecture as part of Polygon Improvement Proposal 19, which is set to transform Matic into PAUL. The upgrade will make PAUL a native gas, staking, and governance token designed to support an ecosystem of CK -powered Layer 2 chains. Polygon also introduced two new Polygon Improvement Proposals that modify the native token burning mechanism. The proposals include PIP24, which aims to change the EIP -1559 burn system, and PIP25, which aims to adjust the PAUL token supply. The launch signifies the preliminary phase of the project's transition into Polygon 2 .0. And lastly, Derivative's protocol Perineal deployed its V2 upgrade on Arbitrum and Base. The new version introduces faster oracles for reduced order execution time and a new PID -based dynamic funding rate to ensure lower trading fees. The upgrade also merges long and short markets into a single asset market, promoting deeper liquidity and better capital efficiency. V1 users are required to migrate their liquidity and positions onto the V2 contracts. In other news, Bonfire introduces Bonfire Wallet, Linea releases a saved fork, 3DNS goes live to beta, and Bybit supports Base. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ATHDAILY. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ATHDAILY .IO. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "first time" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"None I'm Dan Schwartzman that's your Bloomberg World Sports Update. Doug. Danny thank you we have certainly seen recently a lot of volatility in the bond market at one point today in the London session we had the yield on the US ten years spiking 4 .88 percent we settled back pretty dramatically we closed New York at around 472 thereabouts that's where the action will begin at the top of the hour when the Tokyo session gets underway we had the chance to chat earlier in the day with one time bond guru Bill Gross you'll know him as the co -founder of PIMCO he was putting his figure on bond focused exchange traded funds and how they have been spooked recently and maybe some of the losses
Coronavirus
A highlight from Snapshot Integrates XMTP Notifications
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Wednesday, October 4th, 2023. Snapshot integrates XMTP notifications, DeFiSaver goes live on base, Polygon deploys Paul contracts on Gourley, and Perineal v2 goes live. All this and more starts right now. Snapshot integrated XMTP notifications into its off -chain governance voting platform. The integration provides users with an opt -in feature to receive notifications for DAO proposals. To sign up, users can send an XMTP message to chat .snapshot .eth and confirm their subscription. Users can choose which DAOs they want to receive notifications from by activating the bell icon on the DAOs snapshot page. The feature is compatible with any XMTP -enabled application, including Coinbase Wallet, and also supports gasless voting from the same application. Snapshot hopes that the new feature will address voter apathy. DeFiSaver is now live on base, with initial support for lending and borrowing on Aave v3 and Compound v3. Users on base can now access DeFiSaver's signature boost, repay, and single -click position creation features. Users can also swap through a DeFiSaver DEX aggregator bridge via a LeFi protocol integration and track their base portfolio. The implementation also supports simulation mode, a sandbox environment for users to test DeFiSaver's functionalities. Base marks the third roll -up supported by DeFiSaver, joining Optimism and Arbitrum. In the future, DeFiSaver plans to introduce automated strategies, a yield dashboard, and additional lending protocols. Polygon deployed contracts for the PAUL token on the Gorly testnet. The contracts prepare the token for compatibility with Polygon 2 .0 architecture as part of Polygon Improvement Proposal 19, which is set to transform Matic into PAUL. The upgrade will make PAUL a native gas, staking, and governance token designed to support an ecosystem of CK -powered Layer 2 chains. Polygon also introduced two new Polygon Improvement Proposals that modify the native token burning mechanism. The proposals include PIP24, which aims to change the EIP -1559 burn system, and PIP25, which aims to adjust the PAUL token supply. The launch signifies the preliminary phase of the project's transition into Polygon 2 .0. And lastly, Derivative's protocol Perineal deployed its V2 upgrade on Arbitrum and Base. The new version introduces faster oracles for reduced order execution time and a new PID -based dynamic funding rate to ensure lower trading fees. The upgrade also merges long and short markets into a single asset market, promoting deeper liquidity and better capital efficiency. V1 users are required to migrate their liquidity and positions onto the V2 contracts. In other news, Bonfire introduces Bonfire Wallet, Linea releases a saved fork, 3DNS goes live to beta, and Bybit supports Base. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ATHDAILY. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ATHDAILY .IO. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Mark Levin
Fresh update on "first time" discussed on Mark Levin
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Jeremiah: A Burning Word
"Jeremiah, a burning fire. We still have about two more messages in Judges, but that'll have to wait towards the end of October because the next two Sundays, and I'm just saying it now so don't forget at the end, Pastor Theron is going to begin a series on Amos, and so he'll be preaching the next two Sundays, and then I will finish out Judges, and then he will close out the Amos November series 5th when I'm in Nicaragua, but an opportunity to walk through that Old Testament book, and I'm looking forward to him preaching, for us getting to be able to sit under that for a whole series on the book of Amos, excited to learn what he has to share there. As I mentioned, Jeremiah and the idea of a burning fire, and just as we start out, I just want to make a statement that I think we all know, but God has not promised that we even will grasp exactly how what we do and experience functions and fulfills his great purpose. He hasn't promised that it's easy, and he hasn't promised that we will necessarily understand every component, but he has promised this, that what we do for him will be eternally fruitful and that he will make all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The idea that it's not always easy and that it doesn't always make sense, if you turn into the Old Testament and look at the prophets, one of the prophets that exemplifies that truth so well is Jeremiah. He's described by some as the post -Christian prophet, the one to preach to post -Christian times. He's a man who was the unwanted yet truthful voice of God in his era. He was called to preach repentance to an unresponsive people. He confronted ungodly kings, untruthful prophets, and unfaithful people. As he states in Jeremiah 2 13, in a very clear illustration, he says, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. He's constantly called to preach to a hard -hearted people for them to turn from this world's broken and false replica of a God to the only God who redeems the only God of life. It was a message largely unheeded by Judah, a message of judgment that saw fulfillment in Babylonian destruction and captivity, which was a reality that broke Jeremiah's heart. Irving Jensen says this, By divine design, it was Jeremiah who was called to prophesy in the darkest hours of Judah, when Judah as a nation died. He is known as the weeping prophet and the prophet of the broken heart, but he wept not for his own trials, grievous as they were. It was the sins of his nation and the fearful destruction these sins were bringing upon them that broke Jeremiah's heart. So as Francis Schaeffer notes, Jeremiah provides us with an extended study of an era like our own, where men have turned away from God and society has become post -Christian. And it's to this type of people, this ministry, that the divinely called Jeremiah struggled at times to understand and accept his role in giving God's message. He preached 50 plus years going through, I think, four different kings. He faced opposition and derision, and at times he wondered internally with why God has called him to this task. He wrestles with that thought continually throughout the book. But it is in those instances of distress that we get a window into the prophet's soul showing the deep personal price that he has to pay for his faith and his faithfulness. And it's to one of these that we're turning this morning, chapter 20 of Jeremiah, to see that battle and understand what it means to truly have a burning fire in your bones to proclaim God's truth, no matter the response or reality in which we live. My goal with this whole message, one, as we walked as a church in ordaining Pastor Theron to the gospel ministry is to be a call in his life that no matter what comes up that the Word of God is a burning fire, but it's also a call to us as a church to have a burning fire, a truly burning fire that we cannot but proclaim Christ no matter what we encounter in this world. So we encounter Jeremiah in the midst of one of his sermons or oracles preaching the destruction of Judah at the temple, and this is around 606 BC during the reign of King Jehoiakim. If you've ever read Jeremiah cover to cover and you're wondering if it's a chronological history, it is not. So it is based on these sermons and how they fit together and the message that God wants to bring. It's not always set in chronological order at all. So this is early on in Jeremiah, 1914 and 15. It says this. This is his message. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet with the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, by the way, he was a prophet and a priest. Thus say at the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I've pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. And he is a weeping prophet, a broken prophet. He's the prophet that had to preach to people who didn't want to hear what he was saying because they had other prophets saying, don't worry, we're going to be fine. It's not going to be a problem. We're going to get over this. We're going to prosper. We're going to be victorious. And he is almost a singular voice during this time saying, no, that's not what God said, that God has something else for us. Well, a man named Pasha, who is both a priest and the chief officer, here's Jeremiah speaking and he has Jeremiah whipped in scripture. It says he's beaten and really likely what Jeremiah received at that time were 40 lashes based on what Deuteronomy 25 three would allow. And so when you see that he got beat, it's not a whipping or two, but instead a formal punishment that took place. And then it says that pasture placed him in the stocks where his hands, feet and head were placed through holes, which contorted his body and caused extreme pain. Where is he placed in the stocks? It's not in prison, but it's at the gate. There's stocks at the gate. It's the Benjamin gate, upper Northern Benjamin gate because they wanted everyone to see what happens to someone that confronts them and speaks of God's judgment. Jeremiah is released the next day and instead of backing down, he renames pasture to Magor Miss Abib and you, you get extra chicken if you remember that at the end of the service, what his name was. But it means this terror on every side and, and what Jeremiah was saying was he was reiterating his message. He says, pasture, you're going to see your friends struck down on by the sword. You're going to witness people you know, hauled off to Babylon. He himself will be hauled off to Babylon after seeing the Babylonians take all the wealth of Judah and Jerusalem and that he would ultimately die there and be buried with the friends to whom he pasture had prophesied falsely. I want us to see as he's coming out of the pain and punishment, what he did yet those strong and bold words from Jeremiah were not all he was feeling or experiencing. The rest of the chapter deals with a cry to God saying that the mocking and the disrespect and the ridicule or are wearing on him. He preaches God word and it says he feels like it's become a reproach and the reason why people attack him. He wants to stop speaking God's word but realizes that he cannot stop speaking because that truthful message is in his heart and not speaking God's word creates a burning in his bones and what they're trying to say is there is such an intensity that you cannot stop a burning word that he must preach no matter how his world responds and so with that burning word in perspective, we take a moment to see and recognize what can waylay us from speaking it. For Theron, I kind of specifically kind of diving in for him on this. What can knock you off course? What are things that can come in and recognizing what they are from Jeremiah's circumstances and then seeing how they are overcome and so as we look at Jeremiah's circumstances, we must first recognize the potential pressure. Jeremiah 21 through six, it says, now, pasture, the son of emir, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then pasture smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord, and it came to pass on the morrow that pasture brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him and pastures thinking that Jeremiah is going to recant. He says, the Lord had not called by name pasture, but Maggore, Miss Abib. For thus say at the Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and then I shall behold it and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, which is the first time he names the oppressor that's coming in a specific way and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labors thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon and now pasture and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and now shall come to Babylon and there thou shalt die and shall be buried there. Thou and all thy friends to whom thou has prophesied lies. And if you think Jeremiah is a coward and I want you to make sure you get this image correct in your mind as we walk into where his, his struggle comes, you recognize that after being beat 40 times, put in stocks for 24 hours, that when you're released and the first thing you say is what I said is right and let me get very personal and let you know exactly what's going to happen to you. You recognize that this is not a coward or a weak man. What we see is that Jeremiah encountered significant pressure or pushback from the world of his day. They're not pleased with what he's saying. He's actually accused of being a traitor. They wanted to kill him for committing treason because he preached what God had said and Later on in his ministry, beyond this beating in the stocks later on, they're going to throw them in a pit that has water in it. It's sinking constantly to let them drown in a very slow way. The reality of God's truth though, is often those who need it and who we are striving to reach hate it, and that's something we have to accept as we bring truth that the world doesn't love truth, that the world is not enamored with truth. They're not sitting there saying, Oh, everything makes sense to me, but instead they will come after truth with some of the ugliest hate possible. They can resort to violence and physical attack. Many of us cannot fathom the idea or that reality. We don't see that in our world and in our, in our country, but we know that around the world fellow believers face physical attacks for believing and preaching God's word. I read the voice of the martyr and go through it and I'm just shocked by different sufferings that people walk through. I just read of one where they lock Christians up in sea containers in the middle of the desert and give them meager rations. You imagine how hot that gets in there and the suffering that is faced and yet those people remain faithful to the word. There is a potential for physical abuse. This world hates the message of truth that God has sent to it. Now, along with that physical abuse, one that we probably will encounter more quickly, we find psychological stress. Don't lose sight of where he was put in the stocks. He's in the north gate off of the court of the Lord. So at the temple, they have punishment designed to be public and they're taking a man who is both a priest and a prophet who's preached God's word, who knows that truth, and they've made a public example of him and they've set him up to be ridiculed. He's sitting there. Later on, Jeremiah will talk about the fact that he hears many whisperings. In this chapter alone, and we'll see it in the next segment, he talks about this idea that his closest friends have denounced him.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from New York's Plot to Ruin Trump with Rep. Bob Good and Chief James Craig
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The Breakdown
A highlight from A Leading Candidate for Next Speaker of the House is One of Crypto's Biggest Allies in D.C.
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, October 4th, and today we're discussing so many interesting political stories. Broader political US machinations that have some interesting implications for the crypto industry. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Happy hump day. Now, I mentioned yesterday that I wasn't going to do full SPF trial updates every day. My current plan, although it's, of course, always subject to change, is effectively to save up every few days for really important stuff and give you the full rundown. Now, that said, I will try to give you the very highest highlights if there's anything super important. And really, the only big notable detail yesterday was around witnesses. In addition to the FTX leaders that we know had cut deals with the Justice Department and who were planning on testifying against Sam, including Gary Nashad and Caroline, it appears as though former COO Constance Wang, and probably most notably to the crypto community, former Alameda Co CEO Sam Tribuco, are also planning on testifying. Given that that other Sam has not been heard from, effectively since he went off on his boat in the summer of 2022, that one certainly got some tongues wagging. Now, that said, when it comes to the crypto industry and its actual future, the much more interesting story was drama in Congress. I'm excited to dig into that. But before we do, I'm also thrilled to announce that the breakdown today is welcoming a new sponsor. That sponsor is Kraken. Now, Kraken is a company I've known forever. Their founder and former CEO Jesse Powell is one of the true OGs of the space. And I've just known tons of super high integrity people who have ended up working with Kraken. And I think that that comes out in a lot of different ways, including them being super early, for example, to proof of reserves. I'm really excited to have Kraken on board as a sponsor, and so you will be hearing from them over the course of the show and in future shows as well. But let's talk congressional drama and what it means for crypto. TLDR, House Republicans have plunged into disarray as the fallout from last week's narrowly averted government shutdown plays out. Specifically, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted from his position after Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate, calling for a vote to remove the speaker. Now, this outcome always had some chance of being in the cards. McCarthy was elected speaker in January after a torturous, modern record 15 rounds of voting. McCarthy made a range of concessions and deals with various GOP factions in order to gather enough support to be elected speaker. Among them was a rule change that would allow any single House member to call for a vote to remove him at any time. Gaetz, who was one of the primary agitators pushing for a government shutdown last week, unsurprisingly pulled that trigger on Monday evening. The last straw seemed to be the revelation of a secret deal between McCarthy and the Biden White House to ensure ongoing Ukraine funding. On Tuesday, the House voted 216 to 210 in favor of McCarthy's removal. Several conservative Republicans joined with Democrats to support the motion. This is the first time in US history that the Speaker of the House has been removed by a vote. Indeed, even calling for a vote is extraordinarily rare, with the last one taking place over 100 years ago in 1910. Now, of course, there will be plenty of places where you can go discuss and hear about what it represents in terms of the state of American politics and the deepening divides within the Republican Party, but that's not really what matters in the context of this show. What matters is that shortly after the vote concluded, Republican Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry assumed the Speaker's role and graveled the chamber into recess. McHenry will now serve as the interim Speaker until a vote can be held next Wednesday. So the first part of the story is, of course, that Patrick McHenry, as you will well know from listening to this show, is one of the most pro -crypto congressmen we have. As leader of the House Financial Services Committee, he has worked very hard to push a number of different bills, including the stablecoin bill, through. And so the fact that we now have an ally sitting in that vaunted position should be a powerful thing, right? Well, practically speaking, the House will be held out of session until that vote next Wednesday, meaning that McHenry will not have an opportunity to advance a legislative agenda. Getting back then to who might end up as the Speaker, Gates and the rest of the House Freedom Caucus don't have anywhere near enough votes to advance their own candidate, but they are numerous enough to act as a veto for other potential speakers. McCarthy, for his part, has said he does not intend to put his name forward for consideration in next week's vote. And so, among a long list of potential candidates as a replacement, support appears to be coalescing around two options. First is House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Scalise is currently finishing up treatment for blood cancer, but enjoys broad respect from both the establishment and radical wings of the Republican Party. The other leading candidate is House Majority Whip Tom Emmer. Emmer is, of course, known to the crypto space as a fierce advocate of sensible crypto regulation. He has advanced numerous bills on clarity for token issuers and resisting the creation of a CBDC. Now, Gates, for his part, has spoken kindly of both frontrunners. On Monday night, he said, I think the world of Steve Scalise. I think he'd make a phenomenal speaker. At the same time, Gates noted that unclear resolution to medical issues make it difficult to know whether Scalise will be an appropriate choice. On Tuesday night, he said something very similar about Emmer and ended the day with a shortlist of six candidates he would be willing to support, including both Emmer and Scalise. Now, if Emmer succeeds in gathering the votes to become the next House Speaker, he has an opportunity to push forward a crypto legislative agenda prior to next year's election. There are currently two bills which have been ratified by a committee and stand ready to be voted on in the House. One bill provides regulatory clarity for stablecoins, while the other establishes a regulatory framework for the crypto industry more broadly, including a division of power between the SEC and the CFTC. Neither bill is expected at this stage to have the votes to get past the Democrat -controlled Senate to become law. But that said, there have been some recent rumblings that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown could be open to a deal with McHenry. Specifically, he might be willing to support crypto legislation in exchange for McHenry's support in passing cannabis banking reform. Now, we are still a long way from Emmer being placed in charge of the House agenda. There's no telling how long it could take to elect a Speaker. The last time around, this process took the better part of a week to resolve. And since then, the fractures within the Republican Party appear to have become more entrenched. Then after that, once a Speaker is elected, crypto ally or not, the number one consideration will be putting in place long -term government funding. The stopgap funding measures which were passed last weekend will run out in mid -November. The House Freedom Caucus has grown increasingly clear in their calls to reform the way congressional appropriations operate. Since 1990, the U .S. government no longer puts forward formal budgets with individual financing bills. Instead, the government is funded using omnibus legislation which deals with the entire annual spending in one gigantic bill. Gates called for a major reform of this system and a return to fiscal conservatism on Tuesday night in front of Congress. Gates said, You know what I think paralyzes us? Continuing to govern by continuing resolution in omnibus. You know what I think throws this institution into chaos? Marching us towards the dollar not being the global reserve currency anymore. Real chaos is when the American people have to go through the austerity that is coming if we continue to have $2 trillion annual deficits. Now, Democrats, for their part, appeared content to allow the chaos to play out. Ahead of voting with the House Freedom Caucus to remove McCarthy as Speaker, House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries said that the chamber has plunged unprecedented into dysfunction. So, bringing it back around to the crypto industry, I think there are a couple things to note. One, even if we get Emmer, his hands are somewhat going to be tied by the legislative body that he inherits and all of the challenges that it represents. As you've probably heard over and over from me, my base case is that we effectively limp over the line of the next election cycle without really getting much done in legislation of any form between now and then. Could this re -galvanize people and lead to some better outcomes? It's totally possible, but for those who are looking for the sunny side for crypto, it's probably very measured in terms of potentially nudging these few bills that have some amount of momentum forward rather than some big radical overhaul. Still, of course, if you're going to choose between a crypto ally as the Speaker of the House and not a crypto ally, it's pretty clear who we want. Now, for the second half of our show, we are going to stay in government land, but before we do that, a quick note from today's sponsor, Kraken. Kraken Pro is an incredible resource for advanced and professional traders. The all -in -one experience allows advanced traders to switch seamlessly between spot trading and other advanced products with a UI that is highly customizable to your unique trading style. With institutional -grade performance, Kraken Pro is Kraken's most powerful platform ever. Go to pro .kraken .com to get started. Thanks again to Kraken for supporting the breakdown. Alright, so as I mentioned, the other big story is that the SEC has been denied an early chance to appeal the Ripple case. On Tuesday, the judge refused to grant the SEC certification to pursue an interlocutory appeal. An interlocutory appeal is when a party is allowed to appeal a partial decision in an overall lawsuit before the case has been fully decided. The SEC had sought to appeal two parts of the decision from the Ripple case prior to a full trial on the question of whether Ripple executives had aided and abetted securities laws violations. Those two parts of the proposed appeal were that sales of Ripple tokens to retail investors through an exchange, known as programmatic sales, as well as the distribution of tokens to contractors and staff, both constituted unregistered securities transactions. The judge said that the SEC had failed to meet the legal standard required to bring an interlocutory appeal. Specifically, they wrote in their order that the SEC is not arguing that the court applied the law incorrectly. Instead, the SEC argued that the judge incorrectly applied factual analysis of the Howey test to the specific set of circumstances in the case. Digging in, the judge clarified their original decision. They wrote that they had not ruled that sales of tokens through an exchange can never produce a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others in order to satisfy the Howey test. Instead, the judge's decision was that the specific set of facts presented in the Ripple case did not satisfy the Howey test. As an extension of that logic, the judge also rejected the idea that the Ripple case has significant precedential value for other token cases. They stated that that would misconstrue the court's ruling. The order clarified that The court held that based on the totality of the circumstances in this case, including an examination of the facts, circumstances, and economic realities of the transactions, Ripple's programmatic sales could not lead investors to reasonably expect profits from Ripple's efforts. The judge explained that their analysis was based on a multitude of factors and did not turn on the fact that Ripple's offers and sales were on crypto asset trading platforms. They even referred specifically to an order made in the Terraform Labs lawsuit as well as the Library case and stated that the decisions were not in conflict because they deal with entirely separate sets of facts. Peels are only allowed to deal with a dispute on the state of the law rather than a disagreement on how the law has been applied in a particular case. In rejecting the SEC's argument that there was a substantial disagreement about the state of the law, the judge wrote that To simplify it down, the judge appears to be saying that there is no dispute that the Howey test is the correct legal theory to apply in the Ripple case, nor is there any dispute about the judge's understanding of the Howey test. The only disagreement the judge could find on the SEC's application was in how this judge applied the Howey test to the specific facts of the case. The judge ruled that this was not a disagreement subject to appeal. So what are the takeaways of this ruling? Well, one, the decision seems to severely restrict the SEC's ability to appeal the Ripple decision whatsoever. If the regulator wants to bring an appeal, they will need to find new grounds and argue that the judge got the law wrong rather than simply made a decision that they disagreed with. More broadly, this order seemed like an implicit criticism of the SEC's strategy of regulation by enforcement. If each token case relies on a separate set of facts and is of limited precedential value, the theory that the SEC can simply win a handful of cases and apply those precedents broadly across the entire industry appears much more shaky than it previously might have. Finally, the judge in the Ripple case appears to have given a lot of thought on how to make their decision unable to be appealed. This order did not give the impression that the judge was looking to make decisions that would need ratification in an appellate court. Instead, it appears that the original Ripple decision was written in such a way to make it resistant to appeals. They seem to have thought through the arguments that might be made to force an appeal and worked around them in advance. In terms of what's next, the judge set a trial date in April to deal with the remaining issues in the case, and the SEC will be able to make another attempt at an appeal once that trial winds up. Now, a lot of folks in the industry were, of course, very excited about this. Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO at Ripple, said, just that XRP in this case wasn't one, and that even though some XRP acquirers purchased it for speculation, the SEC didn't prove it was tied to the efforts of Ripple. Now, on the flip side, although the judge's decision was fairly firm, some crypto lawyers did caution against celebrating too early. Gabriel Shapiro, the general counsel at Delphi Labs, said, don't get too excited about the denial of SEC's interlocutory appeal in Ripple. It doesn't mean the SEC lost its appeal. It means that if the SEC wants to appeal, it has to appeal everything at once after the trial. Still, some useful clarification of Judge Torres's opinion. Consensus lawyer Bill Hughes, however, thought the decision was a more significant blow to the SEC, tweeting, SEC served another L in the Ripple case. Crypto has been calling BS on this making it up as you go approach. Good to see at least one court also taking note. So, friends, overall, a fairly exciting day in crypto land. We got a demonstration of how U .S. politics, as disconnected as it might seem from crypto, actually has an impact on how the industry might grow and develop in this country. And we got yet further evidence that when it comes to the rule of law and protecting this industry's right to, you know, be an industry, the courts are, at least at this time, our best backstop. In any case, that is where we will wrap for today. Excited to share more evolutions with you as they come. Thanks one more time to Kraken for sponsoring the breakdown. And until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Roger Stone
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we. But until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Mataxas. Well, ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your TV sets. I'm wearing a different kind of wig today, and I know it's jarring, but let's just go with it. The wig master. Yeah, he's outdone himself today. I was going to say he was taken ill. He was taken ill. But in any event, enough about my wig. Chris, what about your wig? is My wig an original. Listen, today is, I believe, Tuesday, right? So we should probably tell people who's on the show, and then we're going to joke around more. Who's on the show? In a couple of minutes, probably not wearing any kind of wig at all, will be my guest, Roger Stone. Roger Stone will be talking about the Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz battle. McCarthy and Gaetz. If you're wondering what to make of that, and you don't have time to listen to the show, Gaetz is right. McCarthy needs to be kicked out. But that's just my opinion. We'll see what Roger Stone has to say. He is a genius, political genius, and I'm excited to hear what he has to say. It kind of reminds me of the old Star Trek episode where Kirk and Spock have to fight each other to the death. It reminds everyone of that, but please continue. Spock was kind of under a spell. He wasn't himself, and they had to fight each other. Right. Kirk didn't want to hurt Spock because he knew that, you know. But maybe it's a bad analogy. It's just like that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's just like that. If you don't have any more time, just take that home. It's on In hour two, we're talking to Doug Grothheis. That's a Dutch name. I want to say up front, I hate the Dutch. I despise you people. And I'm going to bring it to Doug Grothheis. Enough with the Dutch stuff. But we're going to talk to him about theological stuff. We're going to talk to Roger Stone about political stuff in a couple of seconds. Before that, we should mention several things. Number one, I've been working on a sequel to Letter to the American Church. It's called Religionless Christianity, God's Answer to Evil. Working on a book is very stressful on me. That's why I'm wearing this wig because the eczema and psoriasis really flare up, and you've got to cover that up just from stress. So I'm working on that book. I'm doing a lot of travel. The Letter to the American Church book, some of you know, there's a study guide that goes with it. And we've mentioned that the documentary film, there's a documentary film. And I think we're pushing back the release date. The film is just about ready to go. But I think we're trying to set it up as a fathom event. I will be screening it in churches around the country. But we don't book. It's not about a movie. It's about saving America from sliding into the abyss. It's very, very bleak. If you pay attention to what's going on in the news, most of it seems unbelievable, the evil that we're facing and the silence of the church in the face of evil. So stay tuned on that. The way they attack President Trump, the way they attack Mike Lindell, what's really gross to me is there are people out there who don't care. And I think to myself, who are you? Do you understand what kind of a country this is? In this country, we don't play those political games. We actually have justice under the law. We're supposed to have those things. And you're supposed to care about those things. I don't care where you are politically or who you like or don't like. So it really is amazing to me where we are. So we're going to be talking obviously to Roger Stone about that in a few minutes. But let me ask you again to support Mike Lindell, please, by going to mystore .com or mypillow .com and using the code Eric. But what he's going through, even yesterday, I read a whole new thing that they're attacking him. It's just despicable that we're at that point in the country where that kind of stuff is happening. I mentioned I was traveling. I was. You remind me of that. I forget the name of the song. It's a classic rock song about the guy who's on the road every night. He's going to town to town. You're kind of like a 70s rocker.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Sean Feucht
"Hey, folks, welcome to the program and to what I like to call Monday. And it's Miracle Monday because it's a miracle we were finally able to get our schedules aligned with our dear friend, Sean Foyt. Sean, welcome back to this program. I like your hat. Thanks. Good to be here. It says, make holiness great again. Yeah. Awesome message. You know, people often say to me that, Eric, I don't know how you do it. You travel, you travel, you're everywhere. I'm doing nothing compared to you. You're significantly younger than I am, but you're bouncing around. You've got a family. In fact, I think you've got several families. You've got a few in different states and stuff, but you honestly, you travel basically nonstop. So a lot has been happening with you, and I want to talk about any of it that you have time to talk about because you're dealing with what we Christians call spiritual warfare, and it's real. It's not something we've invented, but talk about some of the stuff you've been seeing lately because it's unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, well, it's funny because I just got an email actually just now from our production guy, one of our production guys that does all of our, you know, helping us with our sound and our lights and all of our stuff for venues, and Antifa has been using these hidden emails to attack his servers to get all the information on what we spend on all of our events. This is like a normal day, right? And so his team tracked back the emails, and they tracked back to a psychic and Wiccan facility in Portland, Oregon. So anyway, I share that with you because it's true. We are living in a spiritual war. And yesterday I went on live news to talk about this Knott's Berry Farm issue and how this that's place an amusement park that my kids have gone to in Southern California for Halloween this year. They're doing a demonic bondage strip show with I mean, it's pornographic. It's insane. It's they're letting all ages into it. And this is the same location that hosted a love song from the Jesus People movement back in the 70s and 80s. It's the location that hosted revivals. And now it's been let's be clear, Knott's Berry Farms. Now, when I hear that, I kind of think, oh, that's kind of Americana. Yeah, telling me. And again, I say this on this program and everywhere I go, folks, you need to wake up to where we are. This is literally satanic. Knott's Berry Farms is doing something openly evil, as openly evil as you can imagine. It would be like the fever dream of somebody from from 30 years ago, like this is going to happen in the satanic future. And you'd say like, yeah, you're nuts. But Sean, you're telling me that they're doing this. Knott's Berry Farms is why would they do something as openly sick? It's so sick. It's almost unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, it's it's the full on assault on the next generation. I mean, the enemy always, always picks the most vulnerable. You know, he always attacks the weakest. And that's our kids. And of course, you know, I'm passionate about this because I got four kids, ages 13, 11, nine and five. I just finished a book on boldness for teens and preteens like it would basically be my field manual to my own kids for how to how to grow up in this atmosphere and culture. But I think what we're seeing and, you know, the acceleration of the elections, the political climate, the the sexual perversion on overload, the demonic. I mean, this this what's happening in Knott's Berry Farm makes the Sam Smith Grammy show look like child's play. I mean, it is so absolutely grotesque and disgusting. And yet it's happening right down the road, like from where I live. And so anyway, just referencing the spiritual war climate, it's true. It's what we're living in right now. We have to open our eyes. We have to put on the full armor of God. You know, we have to literally return back to the reality that we're facing this every day. And it's only going to increase as we approach next year and the general election. I mean, it's it's it's insane.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Doug Groothuis
"Hey, you have you checked your bucket list lately? Are you ready to take care of item number seven? Listening to the Eric Metaxas show? Well, welcome. Tune in and then move on to item number eight. Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome back. In a few minutes, I'm talking to Doug Groth -Heiss. We're talking about seven sentences on world religions. This is going to be fun, I guarantee it, but right now I get to continue talking to Roger Stone because my producer was out of the room and he couldn't stop me. Roger, it is so much fun to talk to you. You were just making the point about DeSantis and the loyalty thing. Look, I take that very seriously. I don't think DeSantis is a bad guy. I think he's been a great governor, but I really think that it was a tremendous miscalculation on his part. Probably, and you know this, it's not even probably, people with a lot of money who really hate Trump, they did the hard sell on Ron DeSantis. You must do this. We will back you. You can't fail. But he does seem not to have the je ne sais quoi that you have to have if you're going to be a force in politics in America. And he does come across as wooden and I just think it's a pity. I hope he remains governor of Florida for a long time. He's a wonderful governor. But it is so strange to me that people who just can't abide Trump did this and really put all their eggs in that basket. I guess I would argue, first of all, that likability is an absolute key factor in American politics. Ronald Reagan had it. Donald Trump has it. Ron DeSantis does not have it. There's nothing likable about him. There's nothing warm. He's socially awkward. He's very, very strange. He's either an introvert in an expert's business or perhaps he's on the spectrum. I'm uncertain, but it's impossible to warm to him and his physical mannerisms are very weird. The other thing, though, that is even more problematic is I'm going to argue with the assertion that he's a good governor. He took nine and a half million dollars from Florida Power and Light and we got a 22 percent electricity increase, the largest single increase in state history. If your home was destroyed in one of the two recent hurricanes and you don't like what your home insurance company is offering you to replace your home or, say, your roof, you no longer have the ability to sue them. That's because of a bill that Governor DeSantis signed after taking four and a half million dollars from the insurance companies. He's been a he's missing in action as governor. The state has an insurance crisis. The state has a malaria crisis. The state has a growing crime crisis. And the governor is in Iowa trying to make his last stand. By the way, he's term limited, so he's in his final term as governor. He cannot run again. And I think he's very badly damaged his brand back here in Florida. Now, I did not think that the voters would care about the loyalty factor, but I was entirely wrong about that.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Ken Fish
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever, wise beyond your years, and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms? Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking, Eric Metaxas. Hey folks, I hope you enjoyed my conversation with Sean Foyt in hour one. In hour two, which is to say in a few minutes, we're going to re -air my conversation from a few weeks ago with Ken Fish. I love Ken Fish. You need to know what's going on with him. He's amazing. He's doing a conference, a big deal conference coming up that he's going to talk about. But before that, Chris Himes, I thought, you know what? We haven't done Ask Metaxas in a while. Ever since Albin went into rehab, we kind of let that slide. And I thought, you know what? His getting sober has nothing to do with Ask Metaxas. I just have to factually counterpoint here that Albin has not been in rehab. That's actually not true. So he's still on a bender? Is that what you're saying? Well, apparently he's been traveling in Egypt and has written a book. I heard a memo. I heard that. I mean, I heard a rumor that he was in Egypt, but I didn't want to believe it. OK, so we'll talk about this another time. The bottom line is, we have some Ask Metaxas questions and I want to get to them because it's fun to do that before we go to Ken Fish. But before that, got to mention, very important, we are launching a campaign this month with the Alliance Defending Freedom. They are heroes in the battle for religious liberty. There aren't many of these guys out there, folks. The Alliance Defending Freedom is at the head of the pack. They go to the Supreme Court. They fight. If it weren't for them, we'd be living in a different world. So I always say people need to put their money where their mouth is. People need to, many people need to put their mouth where their mouth should be because you're not even talking about this stuff. But the Alliance Defending Freedom are heroes. So I want to exhort you to go to MetaxasTalk .com and give as generously as possible to the Alliance Defending Freedom. When you know what they do, you understand they're in the battle for us, for religious liberty, for liberty in America. And we have to get serious about this. I say everywhere I go, whatever money you have, whatever voice you have, whatever freedom you have, you need to be using it now for these things. Otherwise you will not, in five minutes, you won't have an opportunity. That's what happened in Germany. They waited until it was too late. So please, please, please go to MetaxasTalk .com and do what you can there, please. Okay. Ask Metaxas. Chris, you get to ask. It's time. I have questions for you. All right. Here's the first one. This is from Derek in Stitzer, Wisconsin. He says, hi, I assume you've heard some of what's going on within the United Methodist Church and Disaviliation, et cetera. I'm wondering if you have any insights or opinions on the situation. Thanks so much. Oh, that's easy. The answer is no.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Kevin McCarthy ousted as Speaker of the House
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Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1278. Gensler LOST AGAIN! | Judge Shreds SEC Appeal! | XRP Update
"Let's get into some XRP news today and talk about the SEC taking another black eye. These guys are taking round after round from the judge, and it's going to be an interesting one for sure. You don't want to miss this show. All right, my name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Let's get into it. A couple of topics that we'll break down from the judge, but also the kind of impact this could have for the overall crypto markets, even the Coinbase case. We'll give you guys kind of a rundown. One thing I do want to do is thank our sponsor, and that's iTrust Capital. If you guys are looking at going into long -term investing into crypto IRAs, this is one of the vehicles you can use, and it's very simple to do it. Easy to start up, there's no monthly fees, and all you have to do is you can do your own self -directed trading. So if you want to get into XRP or others, you can do that right here within the iTrust Capital IRA. Very easy to join, and you'd be joining 200 another ,000 accounts that have already created IRAs there with iTrust. So check the link down below. You get a $100 funding reward if you decide to do something there. Helps our channel out. Appreciate that. All right, so let's get into a couple things here. I want to go over to the PDF here. This is the judge response, and there's a few points. I'm going to kind of zoom in on this a little bit for you guys. There's a few spots in here. There's going to be a lot of scrolling, but the point is we're going to get to a couple of points here. I want to go down here to page five. All right, so let's get into this. First, SEC has not presented a pure question of law. This is one of the things that the judge has already pretty much put in in the judgment on the first ruling, and of course, kind of them just saying, hey, this is, you're still in the same position here. In fact, the court specifically rejected defendants' essential ingredients, the legal test, and applied the SEC's legal standards. So this was where the SEC was essentially trying to create their own rules. Judge says, nope, not going to work here. Further into the document, the SEC seeks to appeal question C, and issuers offers and sales of crypto assets and trading platforms create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. But the court did not hold that offers and sales on a digital asset exchange can create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. So I think that is pretty much the same kind of scenario that's playing out in the Coinbase trial that we will most likely, I think we're going to see a win there as well. Ripple's programmatic sales were blind, bid -asked transactions, same as almost every crypto transaction out there. Ripple's programmatic sales represented less than 1 % of the global XRP trading volume, did not make any promises or offers, and the SEC failed to provide evidence. The SEC failed to provide evidence, and she just keeps on, failed to provide evidence over and over on all of this. So really kind of hitting home on the SEC, just not holding up their end of being able to even prove that XRP or other digital assets are securities. Further in this document, it says the SEC failed to provide evidence and the development of use cases for the XRP ledger, which constitutes a tangible and definable consideration to Ripple. That's important. Court also rejected the SEC's argument that XRP provided Ripple employees as compensation and bonuses satisfies the Howie's first prong. So getting into a lot more detail here, and I think this is going to flow into the rest of the civil cases that are still out there against Garlinghouse and Larson. All right, so court rejects the SEC's remaining argument that the courts have accordingly found section five violations where unregistered crypto asset transactions occur not between the issuer and the investor, but through intermediaries, including on trading platforms, keyword on trading platforms. That is Coinbase in a nutshell. And I think that's the scenario. Digital assets I think are getting ready to fall outside of the guise of the SEC. Court rejects the argument that there is a substantial ground for difference of opinion, meaning it doesn't matter what you think the court has a rule of law to go by and we're going to affect it. And, uh, the SEC is not creating their own law, which is the other scenario. Okay, so further in the court, uh, in the document, the court cannot draw any conclusions about library's core reasoning, uh, to an issue because it was never litigated. Therefore the SEC fails to point to any digital asset cases which conflict with the court's holding as to the other distributions. If you don't know about what happened in the library case, this was a really a milestone event for the SEC, but now the court is pretty much saying, man, not really. Listen into this clip right here. After the blockchain was launched and we didn't do an ICO and this was during the ICO boom and then we said we were trying to be a conservative company and eventually the SEC sued us and they declined to actually bring the trial until shortly before the statute of limitations was going to hit on our, on our first buying time. Yeah. We came in and we did a whole presentation and they just used that stuff against us. Never answered a single one of our questions. We've said we'll destroy the entire company. We'll give you our entire pre -mon. You can have every dollar in our bank accounts, right? But what we want is the status that Bitcoin has, right? If I have to blow everything up, if that's what's somehow the difference here. Okay, fine. Just tell me that that's what I have to do. They won't tell you that. They'll say you're, I mean, seriously, it's so it like gives me an energy. That's crazy. I mean, that would be in the founder of library talking about how much pressure and just gravitas that the sec is wielding out there on small companies. And that's the problem of overreach that we talk about all the time. All right, so let's go back to, actually there's another clip I want to play for you. This is John Deaton. Listen to this one. The judge agreed with me, promised me, assured me that he was going to make sure that the world knew that his decision did not apply to secondary market transactions. And that was a very important point because judge Torres in the ripple case cites that hearing Jeremy Kaufman and library spend between one and $4 million and they spend another couple million dollars in legal fees. The sec spends ungodly amount of hours taxpayer money. And when it's all said and done, the government protected us by getting $111 ,000 in legal fees. From library. Well, we've successfully destroyed them financially. We did what we told Jeremy Kaufman we were going to do when he argued with us and we said, we will bankrupt you pal. What happened is the library is appealing the decision by the judge granting summary judgment to the sec. I think that they have been emboldened, if you will, because of the grayscale ruling by the ripple decision by maybe even the Uniswap decision by judge failure and hopefully a really good decision that comes down in the Coinbase motion to, to dismiss. Remember people, there's not a case in 80 years that supports taking an asset that may have been an investment contract in the beginning and then calling it an investment contract. The underlying asset forever. None. Yeah. So Deaton pretty, pretty benefit. I'm pretty passionate about that. And I think he does kind of hit that point home is that the sec kind of plays unfairly, not surprising and to anyone out there. But the good thing is, is now the courts are starting to rule against them. And this seems like they are finally in a position where they're taking the bully to class here further in the conclusion denied at the sec's request for a stay is also denied. So this court basically just lashed everything down. This is an interesting statement at the end prior to the final pretrial conference council for both parties along with parties themselves shall meet in person for at least one hour to discuss the settlement of the match. So they are really meaning the court is really pushing to get this done. This of course is Annalisa Torres, judge Annalisa Torres, which I think is the one that has pretty much outlined that the sec has no case here for digital asset control and most likely is going to fall under, under outside the graces of the court when it comes to the, to the Coinbase, uh, case as well. All right. Just a couple of tweets here. Uh, corrupt sec got an effort fail on their appeal. Judge Torres wrote the fail 10 times. Uh, here's Stuart Alderati, of course, the ripple attorney courts, um, July 13 ruling was and remains law of the land XRP is not a security. Jeremy Hogan comes in and says, Hey, okay, look here. A couple of things here that I want to note. Uh, and that is really this statement right here. This is a disaster for the agency. I'm going to mark that just it's there. This is a disaster for the agency, but I think this is, this is a good thing for crypto in general and digital assets. But more importantly, I think for digital asset technology and how all of this is moving forward, keeping government overreach out of industry and innovation is important because as you know, Deaton kind of mentioned, they went through all that, you know, millions and millions and millions of taxpayers money for $111 ,000 for a library case, which is probably going to get overturned out. So not a good one. Here was Scott, Scott Chamberlain, uh, further talking about the XRP case and he kind of hits something here. So there's a lot in change. SCC failed to prove its case. Now it has to push not something nice uphill with a pointy stick if it wants to win. So they have a huge boulder in front of them to get this done in being able to win. I think the SCC has lost this and I think it's going to start either looking very bad for Gensler or the SCC is going to start to pivot their position. Now you look at it politically, that could be the case because we're starting to see some things in DC that could also kind of tie into this. I want to go over to this last clip, which is Deaton talking about this a little bit further into what this might mean. Listen in. She said some XRP holders, no doubt bought XRP for speculative reasons and they may have relied on the efforts of Ripple, but the SCC didn't prove that. Programmatic sales of XRP on exchanges are not securities. XRP itself is not a security. And what she did in this decision was solidify it. And I'm telling you it's untouchable. It cannot be touched. She even said, look, I never said that it's impossible for some crypto token to still be a security when it's bought on an exchange. I've just said that XRP in this case with these facts are not period. She even made it more clear that as of right now on this day, excluding Bitcoin, XRP is the only one clearly, with legal clarity. I'm really hoping that judge failure comes through on the Coinbase decision because I think that will be when Gensler is forced to pivot. And that's when Elizabeth Warren has to accept that her anti crypto army is a bunch of old people about to die. All right, there you go. Anti crypto army dead. Uh, and I think back to my point is that I think that Gensler is going to pivot. He has to, this is starting to impede political positioning. It's also impeding the benefits of what the SCC is going to try to do in really the work they should be doing, which is real securities law. And that is the challenge because right now it's just overreached. This is just power grabs. You look at what Graywall was saying here. Of course, this is the Coinbase attorney. SCC just filed its opposition motion to dismiss their case. This is the opposition to the motion for Coinbase trying to get this dismissed. This is going to take on a light of its own. If you look back down here at the end, it says, we look forward to filing our reply in October 24th. So as always, we appreciate court's consideration. So this is probably going to move into November, but the key here is the SCC continues to lose and they're losing in very, very grandiose ways. And this is not good for anything from a governmental overreach standpoint. I think it's even worse for the political position of the SCC. And this also starts to change things dramatically, I think in digital assets as a whole. Most likely Coinbase is going to come out of this. Coinbase is going to look really good pretty soon. So, all right guys, we're going to get into that more. We're going to be covering more of this. Obviously we had the speaker house change up this week. There's a big implication there on crypto and digital assets as a whole. We'll cover that. Make sure and stick around on the channel. If you're not subscribed, make sure and subscribe right now. Just hit that little button down there. If you want to get some of our live streams, I'm doing as much lately, but we do want to bring those back. Just hit that bell. You'll get notifications when we do this. All right, if you're not in our diamond circle, get in now. It's another place where we drop additional content. We've got a really special surprise for you. We've got new TA videos coming only to our diamond circle members twice a week. Those will be dropped on, it looks like Monday and Thursday. Plus you're going to get Kyle's webinar, excuse me, web3 podcast, and he's adding another show to it. So you're going to get four new pieces of content that you don't get anywhere else. Not here on YouTube, only in the diamond circle. Click the link down below. You guys want to catch me? It's out there on Twitter at Paul Baron. We'll catch you next time right here on Tech Path.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from We Need a New SpeakerMy Plan for Success
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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from El Salvador's Economy is BOOMING Because of Bitcoin | EP 837
"Yo, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. We're streaming from Santa Monica, California, also in, you know, in the greater Los Angeles area, because we're in L .A. for Pacific Bitcoin. Opti is currently on the move. He's he's traveling. So we got some people filling in for Opti today. We have my significant other who deals with my madness, deals with all the the Bitcoin talk, slowly converted her into Bitcoin. Slowly but surely, Internet Sophie. What's up? What is up, everybody? We're going to have to play producer here because we are in the same room and we're going to be giving each other a little bit of feedback. But I'm really excited to be here. It's the first time on the show. I'm honored. And yeah, let's get this rolling. Yeah. So it's going to be it's going to be a special show. But we have a lot to talk about today. We have we're going to talk about El Salvador, how else out, because that was one of the things that I've heard, like one of the criticisms was that Bitcoin wasn't directly responsible for El Salvador's economy doing well. Well, there is a report released by Banco Santander of Spain, and they said that Bitcoin tourism was directly responsible for a lot of, you know, El Salvador's economy improving. Also, not to mention the security stuff as well. And on top of that, the IMF released not only the IMF, the IMF and Jerome Powell, who is calling himself Jay Powell on Instagram, are starting to release memes. They're starting to release videos because they're realizing that they're losing ground on the battleground of the Internet. Now, unfortunately for them, we have home we have home turf advantage. Our meme addicts are better than theirs because they're based on truth and theirs are based on lies. So without their ability to control the narrative, like the total narrative, their memes will eventually fall short versus our memes. Again, we have we have the pillar of truth. We have a proof of work backing us. We have Bitcoin backing us. So I think we're going to out meme them, not to mention it's a bunch of boomers like trying to make Instagram videos like it's kind of strange. We're going to play it for you guys and we're talking about it. And also, I want to bring up my co -host today, the legendary one and only Mike Hobart. He's part of the Bitcoin Veterans podcast with Alex Stanzik and co. How are you doing, Mike? Thank you for filling in for Opti today. What up, nerds? Yeah, you don't have to thank me for that, man. As you guys know, specifically you and Opti, well, everybody else in the in the chat, I just enjoy doing this. So whenever you guys need some assistance, there's as long as the schedule permits, I have no problem helping cover down and talk about Bitcoin, dude. Well, I appreciate I appreciate you joining us, Mike, like always. And of course, we got Steve. Now, Steve is very interesting. He is he's a good friend of producer Jacob, and apparently he has solved the oracle problem or better. Maybe let me let me phrase it differently. He's presented a interesting solution to the oracle problem. So there's two problems in computer science, right? There's the two. Let me make sure I don't butcher this. The business in general's problem, which is something that I hate saying, saying that Bitcoin solved, but Bitcoin came up with a good solution for. And then there's the oracle problem, which is another problem in computer science. And Steve, apparently a lot of people were going crazy when you presented the solution. So could you talk a little bit about what the oracle problem is and what your solution does? Sure. Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. I'm not sure if I'd be quite so bullish to say I solved the oracle problem, but sure. So the oracle problem is, you know, who's the person that tells you what the USD price of Bitcoin or who's the person that tells you what the outcome of? Any event was betting on a football game or betting on an election or something like that. If you've got some kind of contract that needs to be settled, both of the people in the contract or both the people in the bet need to kind of agree that we are going to look to this source, you know, like NFL dot com or White House dot gov or like Coinbase dot com to tell us what the official answer is on the outcome that we're betting on. And this is a problem just because you basically need a trusted third party or some kind of centralized person to solve it. And so what I've done is I noticed a long time ago that the USD price of Bitcoin was an emergent on chain feature of the Bitcoin blockchain. And so I knew that I could tease out the price on chain for a while now. I've known this for like five years now, and I finally got around to doing it. There's multiple ways it could be done, but I released the UTX oracle dot pie dot p y. It's just a simple Python script. You can get it at UTXO dot live slash oracle. And this way, everyone can run the exact same very simple Python program and they can only communicate with their own node and takes about a minute to run, reads in 150 blocks or so. And you get the exact same price as everyone who runs this independently. That's kind of it's kind of nuts. I mean, there's trade offs. There's pros and cons. I won't say it's like the solution to the oracle problem. But like you said, just like Satoshi with Byzantine's general problem, it's not like he solved it. He just kind of like did some roundabout way about it. Yeah, exactly. I don't think they're solvable per se. I think that there's ways to tackle them. And they're, of course, like you mentioned earlier, there's trade offs. But it's very, very interesting because you used the basically data from Bitcoin to surmise the USD price without relying on a single exchange or a multitude of exchanges or whatever. You're just relying on on chain data. And I think that's absolutely fascinating. And I think there's something more there. I think we're just starting to see the first innings of that. So, Steve, we're super, super hyped to have you on the show today. We're going to dive more into what Steve is working on his project during the culture segment. But first, we got to get to the numbers. Let's start the show, everybody.
Available Worldwide
"first time" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"And so then we finally made it back to D.C. and to do our seven-day quarantine, self-quarantine or whatever. And the entire time we were we we had developed some sort of cold, I think, because we some of we had fevers and we did have some COVID symptoms, but we were testing every day ourselves. And at the time, they had just barely dropped the requirement to do two PCR tests. But we went ahead and did our own PCR test two days before we left. And that was negative as well. And then we went and did the PCR test at state and then at that showed up negative as well. And we were just like so astounded that things kept showing up negative because we're like, we're sure we have COVID. We're sure. And then we made it to China and we came straight to our apartment and there was no quarantine. And they didn't test us when we got here. Yeah, because we were on the we were on the very first flight to China that did not have a quarantine. We arrived at like 12 something a.m. on the day that they ended that required 21 day quarantine thing. So that was pretty amazing. I agree. Exhausting, though, that trip was. We, you know, I think you remember probably we had the the charter flight and then like, what, three stops along the way and then the other stop from Beijing to Guangzhou. And my husband, the good soul that he is, offered to carry one of the diplomatic pouches. And so we had to show up three hours early to the airport so he could get instruction on that. And so end to end, our flight was over 40 hours long and we were just wiped by the end. It was a rough flight plan. That is a baptism five fire, as they say, a crazy introduction to the Foreign Service, you know, first post 40 hour trip. And then you still end up in a place that's like metropolitan and all that kind of thing. You're not like ending up in like truly the middle of nowhere. So when you were on your way here, we know that the drama was high. Did you have kind of a vision for who you'd be when you got here? Did you say, I'm going to be this person, I'm creating myself, this is my day, this is who I'm going to be? No, I don't know if I've ever had a real good vision of who I want to be or what is going to come next. But there's been a lot of encouragement at this post to apply for and to work at the consulate. And so I've wavered back and forth over if I wanted to do that. Even before I got here, there was the main CLO was leaving and they're like, apply for this position. And I was like, I don't even know, like if I want to work or like what life is going to be like, give me a second to acclimate and then I'll decide. But even after a few months of acclimation, I still was wavering back and forth on whether I wanted to work or stay home. My youngest just started kindergarten this year. And so that was kind of a push for me to realize how long I've been out of the workforce and to realize that I need to start working on my resume again. I guess I just realized that while it was really fun, it was really good being home with my kids. I wish I had kept little things, I guess, going on my resume and that I had kept my toe, I guess, in the workforce a little bit more because it's hard. It'll be a big transition. Yeah, it's a big transition. And you just come in looking different, I guess, when you haven't been in the professional world for so long. Well, and that's the classic problem for EFMs, right? It's how do you explain gaps on your resume, quote unquote? It's not something that hiring people ever want to see and yet it's impossible to not have a life like that. I mean, you had chosen that life originally, but it's common for everybody whether or not they went into this thinking, yeah, that's what I want to do or this is just this is what has happened to me both ways. Absolutely. You have gaps. Your first two were EFMs. Did you get a chance to meet other new EFMs when you guys were in training in DC or was it still kind of a online kind of version of training at that point? It was a hybrid, actually. So Scott was able to be home two or three days a week and went into FSI two or three days a week. But there was a WeChat group that was all the EFMs of Scott's A100 class. And at the time, his A100 class was the largest ever. I think there was like 100 people in it. It was huge. And there was one EFM on there that was just really a go getter. And immediately, as soon as we got there, she scheduled an EFM coffee at her house or her apartment and just me and one other EFM showed up and us three ended up being very close. And we shared so many wonderful experiences with each other over the six months that we were there. She ended up leaving to Mexico City a couple of months after us. And then the third friend just barely, like last week, got to Frankfurt. Wow. It's funny how the time in training is different for everybody. So do you think that your experience as an EFM is similar to theirs or do they have kind of a different career journey and experience with uprooting than you do? I think that their experiences are quite different. The go getter friend, her name is Mina. She also has a background in education like I do. And she is a teacher and she's taught on and off for the last several years. But as soon as she got to Mexico City, I think she applied for a consular EPAP job. And I think that she is waiting on her clearance for that and is going to be doing that. And then the other friend, Clara, that just got to Frankfurt. She was a nurse for several years and then was discovering, at the time that I met her, was kind of discovering what it's like to be an at home mom. And it was kind of a hard transition for her to not be working. So you had both extremes there and you're in the middle. And I was kind of in the middle and Clara didn't know what she was going to do with her nursing experience going overseas. And so she actually ended up applying for the professional development scholarship, I think it's called. Professional development fellowship. And is now getting her master's degree in public health. Since you got here to Guangzhou, you've been integrating yourself into the community. You've become one of the old timers almost because there was such a huge transition time over the summer. And you've been working with us on Available Worldwide. How has that been? Like, what is your experience with taking up kind of a volunteer role outside of the consulate? It's been really exciting for me. I feel like it's so far been a really good fit for kind of the work life balance as well as getting back into the professional world. I guess that I'm able to dip my toes back in, kind of work on my own schedule and get some experience in a field, an area that I have no prior experience in, but I'm learning as I go. And it's been a really great experience to kind of have you and Steph holding my hand a little bit as I go along. So what's your workflow like? Do you save everything up and do it all for a couple of hours one day or do you spread it out throughout the week? Or what does it look like? So far, I've been spreading it out throughout the week. I usually just work on one thing at a time. But I do have a vacation coming up, so I know I need to schedule some things beforehand and get a little bit ahead of schedule, which is hard for me to do because I procrastinate till I have to do it type of person. And so to have a little more discipline than that is not my forte, but eventually I'm going to get there. I'm with you on that one. So how are you learning as you go? Is it just trial and error or what are your recommendations for people who are trying to experiment with new career skills? I guess for me, finding somebody who believes in me has been really nice because you and Steph have been very encouraging and have helped me to feel confident, even though I have no experience in this field. That's what happens when you do a good job. And so I started out just basically copying the structure that you guys had and the posts that you guys did and just kind of doing the exact same. And I've allowed myself a few liberties here and there as I'm getting more comfortable. And I hope to be able to get more comfortable, I guess. And to do things that are even more different, I suppose. Excellent. Well, we're all about the creativity. We're really excited to have you. It's been both an extreme weight off our shoulders, but also just fun to introduce a third person to our team to give us feedback on things that we didn't know about. Maybe like, for example, in this process of interviewing today, it's good to have somebody on the team who it's fresh and new to because you're going to be able to tell us later, this is what I thought of that experience. So we'll really be able to change the way we do it for other people in the future potentially. And also just having kind of a new person feedback. Both Steph and I have been around, you know, for more than 10 years in the Foreign Service. And, you know, maybe we're jaded about how things work or we already assume that everybody knows how this and such works. But having a person who is so fresh and new has really helped us remember, oh, yeah, that was really hard to start up in the first place. As we wrap up today, Mackenzie, you're probably shocked that we're already near the end. But what was your favorite part of this interview? I love telling the story of how we joined the Foreign Service. Just the serendipitousness, I don't know if that's a word, the serendipity of it all was so fun that it all just fell into place. And it just is so fun to share that with everybody, I suppose. I agree. That was probably my favorite part of the story, too. And I had never heard it from you, so I don't know what I was missing out on. How come I didn't hear that story before? Well, Mackenzie, again, I'm so glad that you're part of our team. And I want everybody else in the available worldwide universe to know you're here. So if they have initiatives they want to take up as far as using our social media platform or using our podcast platform to promote something that they're working on or some business that they're working with or just to be a candidate for an interview on our show, then they have not just Steph and I to reach out to, but they can also talk with you as far as if they have a graphic or something that needs to be put together. All three of us are working together now. We're also planning on expanding our team for a few other initiatives that are coming out in the next few months. So if there are things that anybody wants to do or skills that you have that you think would serve EFM career development, then now is the time to contact Steph and I, because there are a lot of exciting things happening, some of which are happening this month. So we're unveiling some new things in October, and I hope that they will become a great service for all EFMs around the world. So thanks again for coming, Mackenzie, and best of luck, as I usually say, in growing your career skills and making, I have to say, you know, our podcast the best podcast on the Internet. Thank you so much. I am having a great time doing it.
Available Worldwide
"first time" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"Such a unique experience, too, that we were able to do that for so many years before even the pandemic, too. Yeah, that's like a throwback to pioneer times. You know, you get to have lunch together and dinner and breakfast, you know, spend all sorts of time, take a break in the middle of the day and you're like, my family is still here. Right. And if there is any, like, quote unquote, emergencies with children, like blowouts or whatnot, I was able to just be like, hey, Scott, do you have a minute? Come help me out. And he would be able to help me out a lot of the time if he wasn't in a meeting or whatever. Sweet. So you guys were leading up to this life for a while. In that time, what did you imagine that Foreign Service life would be like for you? Did you think, you know, tea and cookies? What was the what was the vision? So my in-laws joined the Foreign Service when Scott was 10 years old and their first post was in Delhi. And so my mother-in-law had talked a lot about the difficulty of that post. I think it was in 99 that they were there. And so she has some old journal entries just about how the culture shock hit her, which she had grown up overseas and moving around as well. And so the fact that it hit her so hard was interesting to me. So you thought that you also you thought you might also have that kind of sense of getting smacked in the face by the culture once you arrived? Right, exactly. And my family was really worried about me going overseas just because I grew up in Utah and that's pretty much all I ever knew. We lived in Texas for like a year and a half. But other than that, I've always lived in Utah. And so my worldview was quite small and my family just was worried about how hard the culture shock would hit me and whatnot. But we have been so pleasantly surprised with this post. We obviously were expecting a different story than what we ended up with, because when we signed up to come to Guangzhou, it was last fall. I mean, you were here, everybody was in lockdowns and the news was changing every day about how intense the lockdowns were in some places and all the testing you had to do even to go to the grocery store. And they weren't sure when those lockdowns would let up or if COVID-0 would ever end. And so we were mentally preparing for all of that. And then the weeks leading up to us coming was in December of 2022. And all of a sudden, the Chinese government was like, OK, we were quarantining people last week and tragedies were happening. But this week we are done and you don't have to quarantine anymore at all when you come into the country. So I was actually coming back at the same exact time as you because we had just left Guangzhou for our very first trip out of China in three years at around Thanksgiving of 2022. So we were also in America thinking about all those kinds of, oh, we have to go back in quarantine, we got to prepare, go shopping for 21 days of snacks and I better make sure I bring some hot sauce with me. Is that kind of what you guys were doing when you were leading up to the trip? Absolutely. We were preparing all the snacks, worried about what our kids would be able to eat or what they would eat.
Available Worldwide
"first time" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"So we put all of our stuff in storage, just like we were planning on doing originally, and we took off and we traveled. We are from Utah, so we went south all the way down to Arizona and through New Mexico, all the way to Texas. And then we drove all along the entire coast down to Key West and then we came back through like mid-continent because my sister lives in Arkansas. And then we took a little break and we headed out to California and we did an entire coast along Highway 1, I think it's called the Pacific Coast Highway, and went all the way up California. And we saw, I think, we went through, I think, 25 national parks. And so that was just a really cool experience. But it was Memorial Day at that point. It was coming up on Memorial Day and we were just getting tired of the travel. It was really fun, but we were just getting tired. So we actually cut our trip short and we were going to head up to Washington and Olympic National Park and all those. But we just decided we needed to cool off again for a little while. And so we headed home. We celebrated Memorial Day and then the following Tuesday, Scott sat down and got down to work on starting to apply for jobs. We're like, OK, we need to get back to real life and this is how we're going to do it. So he spent all day applying for jobs and then we woke up the next morning to an email saying, would you like to join the State Department? Wow. So we said, yes, please. This is good timing. And I think about six weeks later, Scott headed out to D.C. and I joined him a couple of weeks after that and the rest is history. So kind of fell into our lap, really good timing. That timing thing, that's a miracle story as far as timing goes. I'm used to having people be like, oh, we had to make this horrible decision. Do we do this? Do we do that? Was I going to lose ten thousand dollars? You're like, no, every time we made a decision the next day, it was confirmed. That's cool. So on that trip, what do you think if, you know, all of us are out here and we're like, oh, we've got home leave in America. Let's go see some national parks. Let's go do some touristing. What kind of what are your recommendations, highlights from the trip? Oh, goodness. We loved seeing caves. The caves in New Mexico were really cool. Something caverns national. That one was really cool. And then in New Mexico, there's also White Sands National Park, which is really cool because it's like the middle of summer and you drive in and it looks like a snowy landscape, but it's warm. We also really we loved when we got up to the redwoods. Oh, my goodness. So beautiful. And we really wish we had been able to continue up into Washington state because I think the life there, like I said about me loving plants, the life and the greenery there is just abundant. And I am sad we didn't get to see more of that. Well, that is the thing to save for your next home leave, I guess. Exactly. And there's, I think, two or three national parks up in Washington state that we would love to hit up. So in this time before you guys started your trip, before you made that decision and Scott was still working remotely, who were you before the Foreign Service? Like what was your what was your life like? I was staying home with my kids for I was home with my kids for the past seven years. And it was such a cool experience, actually, that he was working from home and I was home with my kids and we just got to spend so much time together.
Available Worldwide
"first time" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"So Mackenzie, as you know, given that you've listened to pretty much all of our back catalog, we always start with a few quickfire questions. So where are you now and who is there with you? We are in Guangzhou, China. This is our first tour and I'm here with my husband, Scott, who is in IMS and my two kids, Ria, who is six, and Tucker, who is five, and our little dog, Macy. Oh, I love little dogs. So other than taking care of kids and taking care of little dogs, taking care of spouses, what do you do for fun? What are your hobbies? One of my favorite things is taking care of plants as well. So well, you know, every time you come to a new post, you don't have any plants, you can't take your plants with you. So as soon as I got here, I started asking for plants and the community was generous, including one named Lauren Steve. And I've built up my plant collection and one of my tricks for that was when everybody was leaving over the summer, I put out a blast to the entire community and just said, anybody leaving, I'm ready to adopt your plants. And it's been so fun watching my plants grow and seeing new leaves and it just brings my heart to joy. So I guess there's a little spoiler there. Mackenzie and I are at the same post. Before I get to my last question for her, I will say that I have acquired the same jungle of plants in the same exact way. As everybody leaves, I've been like, I will adopt your plant, I'll give it a new home after the summer is over. So that's kind of a joy in my life too. So Mackenzie, to round us off, what's your spirit animal? My spirit animal is an elephant. Ever since I was very young, I have always just loved kind of the matriarchy of elephants and their family structures and just something I can really relate to. Cool. So obviously we have met each other in real life and you're working now with us on Available Worldwide. So we have a lot of things we know about each other. So it's going to be hard for me to dig out some questions that I don't already know about you, but I'm going to try. So I guess the first one is kind of how did you get into the Foreign Service life? Was this a goal that you and your partner had from the beginning of knowing each other or was it kind of an unexpected twist in the rest of your story? So my husband Scott actually grew up in the Foreign Service. His dad was an RMO for several years. And so when my parents found out that he liked the whole overseas lifestyle, they were definitely worried about that possibility of us disappearing overseas. It didn't come to fruition for the first several years of our marriage. We had other things going on and other goals that were our priority. But then a couple of years ago, we were just feeling like we were really at a stalemate with my husband's career and he went ahead and applied. And as you know, it takes forever for every little process to come through. And so at the time when he applied, we were really ready to like move on to the next thing. But it just was taking time and we were waiting patiently. And it came to a point where we knew we had passed all of our medical clearances and he was on the register and we were just waiting for that call. And the previous year, my husband has been working remotely for the past several years since like 2016. And so we kind of knew that with his job remotely, we could live wherever we wanted to. So we were exploring all these different places all over the United States that we could live and just not knowing what our next step was. So a few, let's see, in about January, February of 2022, nope, yep, 2022, we decided that we were sick of waiting around and we decided we were just going to sell our house and take a road trip and my husband was going to just quit his job. And we were just going to start from scratch, basically. So that's what we did. We got under contract at the beginning of February and then two weeks later, my husband was actually laid off. Oh, wow. And so we're like, well... Your nurse was telling you it's time to start something new. Exactly. We're like, well, at least we won't have a mortgage. And we got a little bit of severance and we were able to go on our road trip.
Available Worldwide
"first time" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"It would really be very humbling to not have a lot of that, let's say, at a job at post. I was lucky in that there happened to be an EPAP position that I did apply for, I interviewed, and I eventually got it. That worked out well for me. I'm still waiting on the security clearance, but I was not banking on an EPAP job because my understanding was it's not always available at each post, and sometimes the cycles just don't work with when you're physically there. But then I heard about FERS, the Federal Employment Retirement System, and that EFMs, if they meet a certain hiring mechanism criteria under family employment, for FAM, family appointed employment, I believe, at post, you're entitled to not only all these retirement benefits, you get a pension, you get all these health benefits, you can get survivor benefits. When I saw pension, I was like, oh, this is interesting because that is completely non-existent in the private sector. I know for a fact the annuity from the pension by the time my spouse and I retire, it's not going to be a lot of money each month, but that's something. That completely changed my calculus and my views of the benefits of employment at post, that you get all these benefits, you can continue work experience. It's going to be very different work experience, but you know what? Experience is experience. I truly believe that. A lot of jobs may not be ideal in your mind, but there's always something to learn. I always have believed that. When I realized all this, I was like, I can't be the only EFM that had these assumptions and had no idea about all these different benefits. I just had no idea. I said, why not create an event educating other EFMs at post around this? What was great was I then collaborated with another EFM here who is close to her retirement and her spouse's retirement. She has all this incredible knowledge that she's accumulated through many different tours already. She created this incredible, what she called employment notebook that has all this guidance basically on how to track your employment history, how to get your SF 50 and advice on how do you read a pay stub and statement because that's apparently a responsibility on the employee of state department. You have to track your own pay statements. You don't want to get overpaid or something and have them chase you down 10 years later for some random overpayment. Exactly. You want to make sure your creditable service is also being recorded so that you can get those retirement benefits down the line. Especially if you're working on an hourly basis instead of a monthly basis because those hours, they're nitpicky about that. Yeah, because that's all going to count. If you're off by like an hour, I mean, damn. Don't be in that situation. Don't get close to retirement and you're off a few hours. That would just be horrible. We put together this event. The Consul General agreed to host it and his wife also helped us coordinate the event. The Consul General even showed up and said a few remarks to support the EFM community. It was, I think, a knockout success. I think a lot of the participants there were very grateful for it, learned a lot. I think it also inspired them to reconsider employment at post too. They just didn't know this was available to them. In that sense, it was a huge success. I'm very proud of what we did. And it would be, I think, a really cool event to replicate at other posts too. It's really great information. Is it possible for you guys to make some of these resources available to listeners of Available Worldwide so that if they wanted to do something similar, host an event or do it particular to their posts, they would be able to? I don't see why not. I would say that one of the next steps we were hoping or kind of a follow-on we were hoping for this event was to potentially share maybe with other clothes or starting with Mexico City in particular, with the EFM employment team there, what we did and what our lessons learned were. We even had a survey that we sent to participants to get their feedback on the event and what else they want to see, what other support and resources they need when it comes to career and professional development planning. It's top of mind, just haven't gone through with it, but we would love to make it available to as many of them as possible. I think one of the hardest things about initiatives like this is follow-through, and especially when people transfer posts, whether the enthusiasm is going to be replicated in future leaders of this or who is going to take on the responsibility. As a professional project manager and professional changemaker in organizations, what are your recommendations? Say you did something great at post and you are really proud of this new professional community or the resource that you created, how do you make sure that that gets transferred on and still adopted by somebody in the future? It's the question. It's one of the biggest challenges that I constantly grapple with with my own clients. Let's say from consultant speak, I would say this is an opportunity to really strengthen an organization's knowledge management capabilities. It's about retaining, recording, sharing, and developing a real culture of sharing information and knowledge and ensuring that knowledge is not kept or stored away in a secret compartment. It's really about ensuring that knowledge is diffuse, it's accessible, and it can be built on. It's one of those things where I've always believed, and this is something that I apply and try to instill in the projects I used to manage, that even though this was, let's say, an EFM event, I don't think it's just an EFM event. If we really wanted to, let's say, develop that knowledge management muscle, really incorporate a culture of sharing, really into the DNA of an organization, those lessons learned, that event and what we wanted to achieve and what we accomplished and what we could improve upon, for example, that should be shared with the wider community. Let's say we could involve the CLO and that could be adapted into, let's say, the weekly senior staff meeting, for example, because I personally believe that a lot of what happens at, let's say, the ground level or maybe in an area that maybe you think is kind of irrelevant to you, that's not true. I think these kinds of events, a lot of other divisions or teams at, let's say, any consulate or embassy, they could learn from too, because ultimately, the purpose of this event was to showcase resources, information, and support for a group of people. I think any team could benefit from that. Any division can benefit from that. It's the techniques and the tools that any leader, any manager, any practitioner at any level can benefit from. When you transform your organization to think much more holistically like that, I think that's when you can achieve a lot more success as an organization and achieve your mission. Really hard to do, though. That is so hard to do and that's why I had a job, because it's so difficult and a lot of organizations struggle with it, for sure. It's hard to do. If I were in leadership, that's how I would encourage whoever do these kinds of events, share it with the broader community, make sure it's really retained, that more people know about it. Truthfully, let's be clear, how many of us at POST hear about something not because we read it in something on SharePoint or in a clone newsletter? It's nothing to do with that. It's like maybe that one locally employed staff who has been here for five years, who's like, oh, yeah, I remember five years ago, there was some EFN event. Maybe you should do that. That's how memory works. That's how information is shared. What we need to do is just formalize that a little more. That would be ideal. That's how it works. I've learned so much just by people going, oh, yeah, we did that few years ago. I don't know what happened to it, but I remember that. That's how it works. I love that idea of diffusing the memory because a lot of times we share things with each other in one-to-one contacts and we don't share them in ways that enable other people to be able to access them later. Or if somebody is removed from that one-to-one communication, then where did that memory go? I'm definitely excited about the possibilities of sharing this information, especially the stuff that you've created for this event and making it accessible to anybody. That way they will have it, you will have it, we all have it, and it will be something that could found other similar initiatives in the future. Now that you're at Post, you've been there, I think it was like one year, it sounds like. What are the next steps? It sounds like that EPEP is, you know, fingers crossed, going to get the clearance through soon, but you're probably already bidding for next year, aren't you? That's right. Yeah, we already have our next assignment. Okay. So will the next assignment be a place where you're able to return to your past career or are you going to have to find and explore new possibilities? Yeah. In fact, the former, because we are going back to Washington, DC. So, okay. In fact, my supervisor was like, you can have your old job back. We can't wait to see you. That's brilliant. Okay. Well, there is an EFM career success story. Thank you. Yeah. It's having a job on hold. Yeah. But I will say though, I've learned a lot about through this career employment journey that I've been on as an EFM. And I will say that even though I will have the opportunity to go back to my old job, I have learned at this point, that's always just good to have options available to you as an EFM. You just, you never know what's going to happen in the future. We have no idea what our next post is going to be. Truthfully, while I've really liked my career to date, I've learned so much. I really like working in the private sector before kind of public mission oriented clients. I think that combines a lot of my interests. The best of both worlds. The best of both worlds. Exactly. So yeah, I work hard on projects that I think are for the public good and that really motivates me, but I get paid a lot to do it. So yeah, it's great. I do believe though that by going back to DC, for any other EFMs out there who are maybe not terribly excited about a DC tour or they are and they can't wait to get back, the DC tour does give you an opportunity to think very, I think very critically about trying to get maybe a civil service job that you can convert into a DEDO down the line. That is what I'm thinking about and that would be my ideal kind of scenario by the time we leave for our next assignment after DC. But again, I think you have to be proactive. You have to think ahead. You cannot assume whatever job you have now, you will be able to keep. You have to assume that you may end up at a post where there are very few EFM jobs at post. You don't want to kick yourself saying like, if only I could have gotten that DEDO when I had that chance. You don't want those kinds of regrets and just keep your options open. And if anything, just going through that process of applying to civil service jobs or even federal contractor jobs. I did recently hear by the way that personal service contracts, personal, yes, PSC contracts are now DEDO eligible. So I think there's a new cable on that. So that opens up more possibilities. So you can have maybe truly a portable career wherever your spouse goes. So that is top of mind for me. And while I will say it's been wonderful, I've had learned a lot and it's been nice to spend a lot of time with my daughter. I think having an opportunity to go back to work, to have something of my own that I want to be a role model for my daughter too. Especially in this day and age, there are so many more opportunities to do some sort of paid work, whatever that is to you. I recall when I was growing up, my mom had to give up her job and her career. And especially because my father worked for a private company, yes, they would sponsor his work visa and our ability to live in a country, but the company's not going to give a job to my mom. So that's a huge advantage of the government sponsored missions that they actually provide an opportunity for EFMs to get work at post. That is really unique and a good opportunity to take advantage of. That's not available to, let's say, expat spouses. They don't have that kind of opportunity. But I do see this as my foundation building tour. So once I have all these in place, I've got the approvals, I have the experience, I have it on my resume. I think that's just set me up more for success at each post down the line. And that's what's helping me get through all of it. It's a really great way to look at it because I think a lot of people in their first tour get career stress and it puts such a strain on this choice that they've made to start the foreign service life. Spousal stress, family stress, stress with back home. And because you are setting up this plan of two or three different ways that you can potentially turn your career interests into a career that will be able to come with you, you're making a long-term plan and not just a panic plan because you're in first tour or whatever. My own first tour, I took on a PSC and at the time there was no benefits offered with a PSC. So it was a really great career move as far as pulling me into public service, but I didn't understand how these kinds of things fit together. Retirement plans and other kinds of benefits. I had always worked in academia before, so all of that came with it. It was a totally new and very unproductive as far as long-term goals go job because I didn't know. There was nothing in my mind that said, oh, this is how you're going to need to work through the steps in order to make a future career for yourself. And it actually took me, I think, three tours before I started to concretize all the various parts of me that could become portable and start the business that I now run today. You've given current and future EFMs a lot of great advice. You're going to give us some great resources that we'll host on our website. Is there anything else I should have asked you? No, I thought this was a really great conversation, excellent questions, and I hope someone out there will be able to learn from my experience. It may seem like a lot has happened in my life, so in my one year officially at post, and it may not seem very easy, and I think some people may listen to this going, I don't know why I'd subject myself to everything that Kavanaugh did. That just seems so painful. Why? Each to his own, but I would say in the end, I think in the end, there's no regrets. I think we made the right decision. We're really happy here. The Foreign Service has been, it's just an incredible experience, right? There's just nothing like it. And I think, especially as a family, this is just an amazing adventure. But frankly, I will say that just navigating the US government bureaucracy, all the different options available to you, trying to reach out to somebody who knows something and can help you, it's a maze. It's through it and figure it out. I think anyone can. It takes some time. It takes maybe some practice, some confidence. And maybe that's the difference for me, where as a first-tour EFM, personally, I don't think that's a label that should hold anybody back. If you want to start something, if you want to do something, as long as that doesn't violate the law, policy, or procedure, what's stopping you? You can be a leader in your own community in any way you want to be. This idea that, oh, you're just the EFM, that's so blatantly untrue. And sometimes I feel at EFMs, we have internalized that, unfortunately. But we have so much to offer. We have so much life experience. And I just never thought that being the EFM or being a first-tour EFM especially, that should stop me from doing something that I thought would help the community. I've used a lot of the skills I've learned over my career to apply to my current situation, to do the research, do the work, to do the outreach, to help others. That's what motivates me. It's what I like to do. It gets me out of bed every morning. But I do feel if more EFMs support each other, help each other, regardless of whether we've done five tours or this is our first, we all have something to learn from each other. And the rest of the community as well has a lot to learn from us. There's really if anyone's looking for trying to develop an EFM support group or trying to navigate your own career, trying to figure this whole thing out, you have help, you have support, you can do it. Absolutely. I have no doubt about that. Thanks so much for being on the show today, Kavanagh. It's been great talking with you. Thank you so much, Laura. I totally thought at the end there, you were going to say the exact opposite, that even though it seems like my life has gone so well in my first year, just a caveat, you can do it too. I am not a superwoman. I thought that's where you were going to go. And you're like, no, it's been rough. I'm like, wow. What I heard was it's been empowered and driven and really amazing to have done all that in one year. So two different sides of the same story. Thanks for listening to this episode of Available Worldwide, the podcast that introduces you to the partners of the American Foreign Service who are creating portable careers. If any of the stories you've heard today inspired you to share your story, or made you think of someone you'd like us to interview, please visit our Facebook page to apply or nominate a friend. Visit us at facebook.com slash available worldwide podcast. 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"Welcome to Available Worldwide, the podcast by, for, and about the accompanying partners of the U.S. Foreign Service. Little did you know that responding to a post on Facebook was going to get you invited to be on the podcast itself. I thought that was a very clever hook, so I am very impressed. Okay, so you feeling warmed up? Yeah, that's great. This is Lauren Steed, and I'm here today with Kavanagh, who is currently posted in, I believe, Monterrey, Mexico. Is that correct? That's correct. And I invited her here today because she's done a lot of work recently helping support EFM careers in her community, and she has her own career journey that has been just as crazy, I think, as all of the career journeys I've heard about on Available Worldwide. So I'm really excited to talk to her today. Kavanagh, we start our episodes with what we call quick-fire questions. So I'm going to ask you three questions. You answer them in, you know, three to ten words, and we'll get started. So first off, I already kind of spoiled this one, but where are you currently located and who's there with you? I am here in Monterrey, Mexico, and with my spouse, who's a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, and my 17-month-old daughter. Wow. So daughter while posted to Mexico or prior to? We moved here. She was only four months old. Probably baby puts a big crimp in this question, but do you consider yourself a night owl or an early bird? Even with a young toddler now, I still consider myself a morning person. Okay. Well, good. That is definitely what toddlers prefer as well. Do you have a superpower? This is Steph's favorite question, and it's kind of one of the themes of Available Worldwide. What is it that helps you succeed in life? I would say my superpower is that I'm pretty action-oriented. I have an ability to convert ideas into actions, which I think can be an understated skill set, but I think that's been an important part of my success today, career and personal. No wonder you worked in project management then. We'll get to that later. I was excited to read your bio because one of the things you mentioned is that you two grew up in this kind of itinerant lifestyle of moving around a lot. Do you have cherished childhood memories of that, or was it traumatic? All of us parents are afraid it is. Yeah. That's the thing, right? I think every experience is different for every person, for every child. It can be very difficult to move around and leave your friends and move to different countries, but I think precisely because I was young and that was what I was used to so early on, it was a really fantastic experience for me. I wouldn't change it for the world. We lived in countries, mostly in Asia because of my father's job. I lived in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. These are amazing countries to grow up in. You meet people from all over the world. I went to international schools and I'm still really good friends with all the people I graduated high school from. I know it can be hard. It's not for everybody, but I personally really loved living in different countries. That's why I'm really excited that my own daughter will have that opportunity to be, I guess, a third culture kid, as they say. What's the longest you've ever lived in one place? Well, I would say at this point, maybe it's dating me, but probably Washington, D.C. After I graduated from college, I moved to D.C. to start my career and stayed there, lived there until my husband joined the Foreign Service, so we moved to Monterrey. That has actually been the longest so far in my life. I was calculating it out for myself recently and I realized that now that I've hit the three-year point at this house that I live in in China, this is actually the longest I've lived in one place since before I graduated high school. That's amazing, yeah. When you really think about it, it's kind of incredible, right? It's a little bit horrifying, I guess, too, but it is exciting, I agree. I'm looking forward to my children's opinions on TCK life as well. Has living in Monterrey and having an infant affected your sense of self? I know a lot of EFMs are like, I was really career-oriented until I got married to my partner and now I'm in a place where everything is redefined. How has that transition worked out for you from independent person in D.C. to now? It's the question, right? For me personally, I became a mom and an EFM and kind of a stay-at-home mom all at the same time, so a lot of change happened for me very quickly. I think that while it was not easy to go through a lot of that significant change going from, like you said, I was very extensively involved with my employer, I led initiatives, I worked on business development, I did tons of client projects, so that was a lot of my life. Then all of a sudden have this little person consume everything in my whole life, my attention, that it's an extraordinary experience to become a parent, but it's very difficult. It can be very challenging for sure. Here in Monterrey, I was enabled to actually convert my job into a telework arrangement for many reasons that I'm sure a lot of your listeners can really relate to. What I thought was an opportunity after my maternity leave to go back to work, I wasn't able to do that. That has also been another adjustment for me. I'm taking on a lot of change and I'm losing identities I've had, but I've also gained new ones. That's a way to help me, that motivates me to grow through this lifestyle we've signed up for. I also say a lot has happened in this past year alone, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I think while Monterrey is a soft landing into the Foreign Service, as they say, I'm grateful for that too, because I think it's allowed me to adjust to a new identity. That's allowed me to become a lot more familiarized with EFM employment and getting to know other EFMs at post, for example, even getting to make local friends. I don't think I would have had any of that opportunity if I was working full time because I had a very busy schedule. That would have continued, I think, even teleworking from a different country. In the end, I think keep a positive attitude. There's always going to be challenges and difficulty, but those are not permanent phases of your life. The change is always going to be a constant. That is always a given. Once I embrace that attitude, I embrace that idea. That, I think, has helped me a lot, become a lot more resilient, become a lot happier with all this change and what we signed up for. If you find your community, whether online or in person, that helps a lot too. It's definitely been a journey and in some ways, it's only just started, which is kind of crazy. Well, I am curious. What is it that you were doing in your professional career before you made all these transitions? I think that will really help illuminate what your story is. Yeah. I was a management consultant for a very large multinational corporation. I won't name the company, although if I do, everybody would know it. I will just say it's very well known. It's precisely because it has a presence in so many different countries, including Mexico, that really complicated my ability to continue working for the US division. As a management consultant, I did soup to nuts work related to strategy, change management, and knowledge management projects for my clients. Of course, as a consultant, you're not just doing client projects. It's very common. You're taking on what I call the extracurriculars to strengthen our eminence so that we can better deliver and serve our clients, and also to grow the business and ensure that we as a company, as practitioners, are up to date on best practices and the latest technology that we can implement for projects. Basically, a lot of the work I would do is to help clients envision their strategic initiatives and their vision for how they will want to, let's say, transform or implement a large-scale enterprise management system, because the company I work for has a lot of IT projects, or to help them improve a certain process or system, or to improve a certain management practice. I did everything related and supported that. I led teams. I coached junior team members and managed financials. I served as a deputy project manager for a larger project at one point. I do think I'm kind of a jack-of-all-trades. I will say that's kind of why I'm consistently, I think, staffed on federal projects, because I would say there's a complexity. There's technical knowledge, of course, that I need to bring to the table to clients, but there's also, I think, an element of a lot of human empathy, because I felt like the clients who responded to me most and my suggestions and recommendations that we ultimately developed in the end, I think they felt they could really trust me. A lot of them said, I consider you be a good friend. You really listen to my concerns. I think for a lot of public servants, that's kind of a rare opportunity for someone to just listen to them, because a lot of times if there's any large transformation project that at the government level you have to implement, it's always mandated from the top. It can be politicized very quickly. It's always in the news. It's always in the press. You always hear a lot of the bad stories and not a lot of success stories. Just being there to almost guide them. I think it's a bit presumptuous to say I was- A doula? Yeah, a doula. Yeah. You got this. You could push through the pain. Exactly. Just someone there to support you. Even though it's difficult and you're going to have to work more and this will impact your job, all that uncertainty that surrounds change in any workplace, any organization, of course, you're there like your support system. I kid you not, I would say that's a lot of my job. Yes, there was managing a project, setting meetings, creating schedules, managing risks. Yes, that's a lot of the technical knowledge. A lot of it is just checking in, talking with people, saying how they're doing, making them feel better, making them feel like they can do this. I really felt like I was a teacher, like a coach. I think that's a marker of a good consultant too. Someone who really cares about the client and they show that. I can see how you had all of the kinds of tools necessary to do a kind of research and change maker project within the EFM community and Monterey then, which is one of the reasons I brought you here today because I wanted to hear about that project. How did it get started? Why were you pursuing it? Were you invited to do it? What was going on? What started this? Yes. I would say this EFM employment and retirement events that I initiated earlier this year, the inspiration for that was, I will say to be honest, was I needed project management credits to renew my project management certificate, my PMP, Project Management Professional Certification, and not working in an office or having a job. You have to find a lot more creative ways to submit evidence that you're continuing your education and your project management practice. I can tell you that here at Available Worldwide, we are all about the trying to fulfill credits and trying to do career tasks in ways that do not require you to be employed. This is a big part of our mission. I'm glad to hear you have found a way to do it and benefit other people. Exactly. There was an immediate need, but then I said, why not find a project that I can work on that gets me these credits, but then can really benefit myself, of course, and also other EFMs at post. The other part of the genesis of this event was when I wasn't able to bring my job with me to Mexico and work in telework. I started looking at other kind of telework options with US-based organizations. I just kept running into the same issue of like, oh, yeah, we like your experience, but we really can't work with you. Your presence in Mexico is a problem for us. We just don't want to take that tax or liability. I understand. Employment at post seemed like my best option. Initially, I will admit, I was resistant to employment at post. I went in assuming that a lot of jobs available to EFMs at post, I'm sure are good and fulfilling, but I really got used to a certain level of, let's say, compensation in the private sector. I got used to a certain level of responsibility. I was managing people. I was leading teams. I was a certain level of leadership.
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The Maverick Paradox Podcast
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"Is Kevin hannigan, hi Kevin. Hey, Judith, looking forward to this pleasure to be here. Thank you. I'm looking forward to our conversation too, but before we begin, tell us a little bit about you. Yeah, thanks for asking. So I think kind of an unusual background, my passion growing up was technology. So actually computer science and math major at university and as I started getting into the workplace, I was starting to see a lot of things where maybe I learned better as a kid and I wasn't really learning things that differently as an adult. So I actually went back to school and learned a little bit more about psychology, how the brain works, making decisions, how adults learn different than kids. And it kind of put me in this perfect triangle, where now I work with companies and organizations helping them make better decisions with their data and analytics and part of it is technical as understanding that the tools and technology. But the part I really like is kind of that human element of technology doesn't solve everything. There's a psychological and sociological aspect of it that really interests me and piques my interest. And I think it's important because there's so much misinformation out there that people are overwhelmed and they don't know what to do with it. Yeah, I totally agree. And I'm curious, why did you decide to actually go and do psychology, what was your thought process there? Yeah, so I started out individual contributors started getting into leadership and realized that I'm a servant leader. And in today's world, I think that's the way to go. And to do that, you have to understand everyone is unique and individual, but at the same time, there are some key philosophies of what people what their needs are, what their warrants are. How they process information, and what better way than to go back.
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
"first time" Discussed on SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
"And that's the shut for now space-time is available every monday wednesday and friday through apple podcasts. I tunes stitcher. Google podcast. Outcasts spotify. Hey cast amazon. Music bites dot com soundcloud youtube your favorite podcast download provider and from space time with stewart gary dot com space times also broadcasts through the national science foundation on own radio and on both iheart radio and tune in radio. And you can help support our show by visiting the space time store for a range of promotional merchandising goodies or by becoming a space time patron which gives you access to triple episode commercial free versions of the show as well as lots of burns audio content. Which doesn't go away. Access to exclusive facebook group and other awards. Just go to space time with stewart. Gary dot com for full details. And if you want more space time please check out our blog. You'll find all the stuff we couldn't fit in the show as well as heaps of images new stories loads videos and things on the web. I find interesting or amusing. Just go to space time with stewart. Gary dot com la dot com. That's all one word. And that's tumbler. Without the aid. You can also follow us through at stewart. Gary on twitter at space time with stewart gary on instagram through space time youtube channel on facebook just go to facebook dot com forward slash. Space time with stewart. Gary and space time is brought to you in collaboration with australian sky and telescope magazine. You'll window on the universe. You being listening to space. Time with stewart gary this has been another quality. Podcast production from bites dot com..
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
"first time" Discussed on SpaceTime with Stuart Gary
"Astronomers have for the first time seeing a white twelve appear pedo abruptly switch itself off and then on again. The unique phenomenon reported in the journal. Nature astronomy happened is the y twelve was creating material of a companion star in the t. w. peak terrorist binary system located some. Fourteen hundred. lie is away. What towards the exposed cores of sunlight starts at the end of their lives stash shine by fusing hydrogen to helium in the core when they run out of core hydrogen they contract eventually increasing temperatures and pressures enough until they begin fusing helium in corrina carbon and oxygen at the same time shell of hydrogen begins burning outside the core now all this causes the stats outta gaseous envelope to expand and it's it's now further away from the contracted core echoes down turning the star into a bloated ridge giant when our son reaches this stage of its life in around seven billion years from now it surface will have expanded at fire enough to engulf mercury venus and most likely the earth as well eventually the doom style will run out of core helium fuse and as it's not massive enough to fuse heavier elements the stat dies. It's outer envelope. Flirts aways spectacular. Cloud quote a planetary nebula. And it's white hot stellar core is exposed as a white off. Astronomers think about ninety seven percent of all stars and that becoming what wolves however if the what in the close binary orbit with a companion star the intense gravitational pull of the white off can drag or create material off that companion and if a pulls up too much material passing a threshold of around one point. Four times the mass of the sun the white twelve becomes unstable triggering thermonuclear type one. A supernova explosion. The white dwarf observed in the t. w. tourists binary system is also creating feeding from an orbiting companion star as the word to fades or create. It becomes brighter. Using nasr's transiting exoplanet survey said light tests astronomers saw the white dwarf lose brightness in just thirty minutes that's a process previously seen in creating why twolves over a period of several days two months now the brightness of the creating wide twelve is affected by the amount of surrounding material feeds on and this suggests that something suddenly began interfering with its food supply and because the flow of material in the whitewater secretion disc from its companion star is relatively constant. It shouldn't drastically affect its luminosity on such short timescales instead. What research is believed they could be seeing a some sort of reconfiguration of the white dwarf surface magnetic field during its so-called on mode when the brightness is high the what will feed off its accretion disk as it normally would suddenly and abruptly the system turns off and its brightness. Plummets the authors. Say that when this happens it's likely the magnetic field spitting so rapidly that centripetal barrier is physically stopping fuel from the accretion disc constantly falling onto the white dwarf during this phase. The amount of fuel the white officer fade on is being regulated through process called magnetic gading in this case spinning magnetic field of the white off regulates the fuel passing through the date on the accretion disc leading to the semi regular small increases and decreases in brightness being seen by astronomers after some time the system sporadically turns on again and the brian. This increases back to its original level. This discovery will hope. Astronomers learn more at the physics behind the creation where objects like black holes white dwarfs neutron stars on surrounding material from neighboring stars. This space time stole the calm and you study looks deep into the roots of strain. Geology and blue origin announces plans for a private space station. All that and more still to come.
The big d zone
"first time" Discussed on The big d zone
"Okay. This is dj. Okay for god to do a rant because my supporter let me know that. Okay so let me. Let me make this story more interesting. You see. I was trying to do my campaign funding because he couldn't go out because of the pandemic and then we're limited on what to do because you've math mandate than the wanna be vast all plays what you could still get the violence vile bath but nonetheless So i would alerted that using go fund me illegal only for the federal side. You know if. I'm for standing or congress or the president but it doesn't affect me state statewide. When i'm run for lieutenant governor. I still have that go fund me page. But i'd like go from me because a is popular. Be a lot of people go from me. See if followed the law and any other place that will do fundraising like You know making sure. Donuts list If available and then have people having the option to opt out. It's very legitimate. It's been around for years. It not even go nowhere. The why the the ethics commission on fundraising say that. It's not allowing any candidate. Any candidate to use a goal for me pay. When did this happen. How long will this along with this done. I mean the news about gofundme me. Somebody people made the money on gopher meal even Somebody let's raise money for a funeral are raise money for a trip or something like dan. But you can't leave money for federal campaign on gofundme page. I mean when his public nature is publicly known. I mean just as good at service that you have to pay for now locally. I'm amusing is free with optional. To pay for but it has a better looking layout s exciting most. That's the one that i was forced to using. I mean it's ridiculous to me take a like we have no freedom and stay as a federal candidate. Federal office candidate on what we can use for fun rated. I mean we're gonna look a last year did to to kennedy. I mean we wasn't able to do much because the dependency. Okay s. t. All over the place. I mean it was possible to shake cam vote. If he made it possible. I mean now me when my hearing i couldn't even hear what the was saying when when they wanted Complementary or wish me well or anything like that you know. I mean it's ridiculous absolutely ridiculous that you can't you a popular site like go fund me but now when my support of an and he showed me one of the pages and i was looking looking around for a little while and then i was like well how come i can't use the win. You know everybody's doing and state gulf politicians are hewlett and he showed me another site where Where and it's on my facebook page and it's on my To put for senate page by the way as toll go from not allow in the federal or a federal what is presently run for credit for senate him for legal like what the cat. What do you have against fund me. I mean give with the damn twenty-first-century what do you have and especially with this. Pandemic get with the twenty-first-century century. I mean it's ridiculous. I've already had been on drivers to try to get me different places. I mean you know. This is ridiculous. I got sped ramic nuclear and it's about the campaign the medium not spending awareness. There doing a terrible job. They're doing other candidate when they're not doing my campaign or they're not they're not letting people know about my campaign i ever had to tell. My landlord was running. I had me. I had to my own landlord restraining my lease the other day. I had to let him know does that. I was running within. And i got an instant vote for my landlord doing a terrible job at nit picky on who candidate support. I'm already legal at the legal annonay. I'm already signed up to run federally. But i'm just not on the ballot yet until i get to the city to officially flyer and happen to by march. Then we'll have a denver march twenty twenty till so i mean if i got you a bornstein fundraising i mean. I can't can't even sell to a cat now. I can get people to from the end. But i can't even sell to damn cad or dog or narrowed. I mean at that gate. i would min- money right now. I wanna miss struggling right now. Won't be worried about a government The federal government moved the money because stupid non vote on the debt ceiling and late indeed if they vote on it yet. I wouldn't have to worry about that crap. I am not so all of dana federal ethics commission on saying. Please let the candidate be able to whatever funding online that they have used to get the word l. Okay to clean them as you can't. It's a one one-sided band as a popular well popular started. there's always on the noon and not fair. That one side. Is dan literally banned from being used at the way of fundraising phasing. Fun for campaign. I mean he can't help big camping from raiders because of the playpen demi. I'm out now. i'm still running. But i'm out the program. Ah i'll see on alcyone the next day on that as jag. -ment out the program. I'm staying in the race but the program done. I'm still running..
The Ken Coleman Show
"first time" Discussed on The Ken Coleman Show
"Eight four four seven four seven two five seven seven is the number. Let's go to kim. In columbus ohio kim. You're on the. Ken coleman show. How can i also honor to speak with you. All the owners how okay. let's go. i need your help. And i just feel you'd actually leave me. I'm ends wit. Will with what i'm supposed to be doing now. I have job jump from I'm sorry i'm a little nervous. It's okay last twenty three years from different careers and so the foundation was real estate. After the crash. I got out of it Hated the short sale. That just turned me off completely Then i went into banking relationships. Spanker and i finished my degree. My bachelors degree then. I got into nonprofit Which was like economic development. And i learned a lot in that and that mission for the whole state of ohio. We get a lot of meaningful projects. That i was Went to local government. And i start working with Land management where. I was responsible for managing Properties the vacant and abandoned properties and selling them for three part of for the south and east side of columbus at that point. I was hired Promoted to homeownership. So i was responsible for developing some of the new projects new construction in the city. So i've been really blessed. And i went to the county and i was A project coordinator to affordable housing program. Having micromanaging boss and just just things it was just like. I don't know the pandemic just made me say i was home. Working like seventy hours wasn't being appreciated. So i said i'm done talking to her on one day manager and she's talking to me so terrible and i say you know what i'm not so here i am now my and i'm gonna make this real quick so you can understand so my husband's family had a real estate. My mother and father in law were warriors. I mean they. My husband grew up with this property. And so my father-in-law paso we're now responsible helping. My mother-in-law fantasies properties He will one day inheriting. So what i've done since i've been working not working. We met we have five properties doing well. I love it. I love real estate. I feel like this is my issue. I have so much knowledge. Can i was really blessed to learn. Every avenue of real estate from finance to credit to economic development. You name it. And now i'm like what should i do now. So website wait. I love that you shared all this with me but you just told me you just said i love it about thirty seconds go you go i love it is how you said it. Why are we confused. We're not confused. You're scared you wanna i. To work for anybody consultants woah. I thought you were already. I mean are you. Is your family making money. I mean they've been paying you. You've been getting paid by the mall. We were young. I mean we're yeah right now. We're just managing as and we're making money but it's like right now. We're trying to everything we're putting into the business to get the properties up to run it but it will be making money here shortly exactly. So here's the deal. So what so you know all this stuff about real estate Yeah you said you learn it all. So which area real estate forget working for somebody else. Forget about all these things you've got cooked up in your head. Okay stop thinking you too much. Oh god i know. I can hear me yes. I've known you for about three minutes but it was pretty obvious. Now here's the deal. And i'm over thinker so i know who i'm talking to What part of real estate do you think you love the most. You know so much about it if you were working for yourself and you were crushing it. Which part of real estate would you spend your time. Working on re happened k. Then so what is it gonna take to get there because we're not going to go into debt. I hope right now okay. So what is it going to take What's it gonna take you. Tell me i can tell you what it takes. Cash right gonna take saving up money. They give me books. So give me an example of how much cash you would need to have forget. Mother-in-law's stuff is just you and the hoops. How much cash. You would need in columbus ohio to rehab a small property just to get your feet wet. How much cash. Probably two hundred thousand. I'm market is crazy. So listen so hold a second there you go thinking again. Oh good is going to be impossible it. What if you actually go get your own real estate license. Realtor will they launch. You get busy and you're working for yourself you can say you're working for somebody else but you're not your broker or you have a broker. What did you say you are my life. Yeah my license. I worked for another company. Here's an yet who cares. Yeah who cares. No you're not you're not out of the loop get back. Get back in the loop. I don't know what that means. You could go out and get clients today to listen house with you. Yes or no market is to get back out there. Well you're talking to different. You're talking to the wrong guy if you think tough is going to hold you back. Because i'm the guy took ten years to get where i'm at my job ten years in broadcasting crimea river. I'm not. I don't care about tough. Here's what i know about you. Write your tough right. If i'm betting on kim or tough market. I'm betting on kim. Every day of the week and twice on sunday Am i right or take my money back on you. You're right. I know right. So here's the deal get in there and sell frequent houses sell all kinds of houses. Double your output go bananas. Keep doing the stuff with mother-in-law. 'cause you're learning how to do it. She's paying you a little bit anyway and get after it. Sell some houses and before you know it if your husband's working full-time and you don't have to live on your income. You can easily easily and a two year period. Make two hundred grand cash. I know on right about this..
The Ken Coleman Show
"first time" Discussed on The Ken Coleman Show
"Know there's more than a j. o. B. i want you to make the income that you desire and the impact that you long for eight four four seven four seven two five seven seven. Let's go to ryan now in south bend indiana ryan. You're on the ken. Coleman show cannot go ryan. I'm living the dream what's going on. Hey so here's my situation. I work factory right now just to pay off debt. The reason why is factory. After i was gonna pay off the debt which would take about nine months right now. After the day. I was going to and go to an entry level job in industry that i want to be in good. What industry took finance great. So my question is knowing that because of the hiring market right now and you said it was use. It should last now another six months or so. Should i try for that entry level job now in the industry the finance industry or should i stay in the factor with a high paying job to pay off the debt. Well let's just say this if you can get in the finance industry in that entry level job which gets you on the ladder. You wanna beyond. And you're making as much as you are now or more no-brainer but if you can't get in or let's let's put it this way. If an entry level position in the finance industry pays less than this factory job right now that i would wait and stay where you're playing nine months. It's going to be here before you know it. And for that matter. Get your mercy. Fund fully-funded three to six months. So i don't think there's a lou. I don't think there's a losing proposition if you stay for nine more months and get out of debt. And maybe even get that emergency fund funded before you take an entry level position. That's a good decision but Yeah i'd prefer you look what you know. There's nothing to lose if you find something in finance that pays the same or more. Yeah jump makes sense. Yeah so then yet. Not convinced. I just feel very underqualified to to get a job that makes as much as the factory job right but wait a second. Is that a fact. Or is that something you feel I guess it might be something. I feel you might by the way. Let me just say this. Your feelings might be right but let's go get some facts. Let's go find out. What an entry level position or two or three or four or five in the finance field looks like and find out what the qualifications are. Are you qualified if you are in his truly entry level which basically like. We'll train you on the job and it meets the requirements that i pointed out. Pays you the same or more do it. If you find out well this position this position position these all injured level and something. I'm interested in it. Gets me on the right ladder. But it's going to require some certifications or some online courses or associates degree or whatever. Then you go get that and you got a good paying manufacturing job factory job where again. You're getting out of debt. You're saving money so either way. You're in great shape. So don't say well i don't know well then. Why don't you know you need to go find some facts. So find out what it's gonna take. It's that simple and if it's going to take some Additional training and again don't assume it's a college degree but it requires some additional training. Do your research on that. How much is that going to cost. And in based on the fact that for nine more months. i'm throwing everything at my debt. How long is it going to take after that nine months to get qualified. There's your plan yes you sure I guess the thing that's just stuck in my mind is. I don't know if this changes the equation that you just laid out for me but This factor drive right now. I just i really dislike it and hated every day. Kinda hit it. I get it but until you can replace that income. Buckle up buttercup yeah i mean i'm with here i listen and it's not forever. Okay suffer eversholt. it's for right now. Go find something better. That autumn motivate you to do your homework. You called me without any answers. All got her questions. You need to go do your homework go. Go find out facts over feelings. Let's go get some facts and our feelings will adjust themselves your sharp young man. You got a great future. The best is yet to come. This is the ken coleman show Helping you go from paycheck to purpose. This is the. Ken coleman show and speaking of moving from.
The Ken Coleman Show
"first time" Discussed on The Ken Coleman Show
"Bundle my brand new book. Why you're there because the get clear curse us but is the compass from paycheck to purpose. The clear path doing work you love. The book is the guide up the mountain kit clear. And let's get you moving. Okay is this is gonna last. It's time to move. A lot of people are gonna be flooding the job market and the next month two. I think five six more months all right to the phones. We go eight four four seven four seven two five seven seven. John look is joining us in jacksonville. Florida jam like you're on the. Ken coleman show. Hey thank you for having me how are you. I'm living the dream. What are you doing Just i'm actually in the middle of work right now. But i just wanted to call you because i have a quick question. Okay are we is there. Is there any chance you their leader's gonna come by and see you. Do you need to get an undisclosed location here. I'm actually quite fine. Thank you once again. Man what's up You know so Okay so right now. I currently work at a company and they Put me through school. So i can get my radio so i deal and i actually have An interview with another company Tomorrow and i'm just kind of having a little bit of difficulty trying to decide what to do. Because i've been with my company for a little bit over a year and i feel like we like offer a lot of things for me and some of the things that i wanna do. They actually would pay for it about ninety five percents For my teacher okay But right now. I kind of feel like i need to Make more money. So that i can just get out of bed and Just kind of have more financial freedom so I'm just trying to decide whether i it's just an interview so it's not. Let's fast forward. Let's fast forward because this is the heart of your question. Let's say the interview goes great. They offer you a job and it's a substantial amount of more money to you. Were you leaning Yeah it's It's come on. John like i know john answer. You don't have to say it in a pretty way or smart way. What is if they offer you a job. This new opportunity this do company and it pays you substantially more you get to fill in. That is which way would you be leaning more towards that company right because you already told us why because you're trying to get a bigger shovel and get out of debt faster right but the that you're and i. This is what's interesting. I think this is a wrestling match between your head and heart. I think your heads says one answer. Your heart says another in my right. I'm right let me take another. Guess your heads telling you to take the new job with more money to get out of debt faster. Your heart is telling you stay where you are. Probably because they've been very good to you and there's a sense of loyalty but also because it's the ladder you're supposed to be on or want to be on and you can continue to progress that way if you stay exactly. Golly how do. I know all these things did i talk to you ahead of time. Here's an here's the deal. I'm always going to tell you to follow your heart okay. Now let's play this out a little bit. Let's invite our brain over to the heart discussion. Shall we say if you stay where you currently are and they continue to train you and they'll pay for this according to you right and they train you and they make you more. Viable is it also presumably bill. They'll promote you as well yes. They're definitely an interesting so it's also presumably to believe that you're gonna make a lot more money if you stay and climb the ladder that you actually want to be on true or false. It just means you're gonna have to be a little bit more patient. Get you'll get more money. Presumably faster at the new opportunity. But when it's all said done you probably make more money and you're on purpose doing what you were born to do. If you stay absolutely it's a no brainer. Okay well thank you so much dude. Hey listen listen let me let me just give you one. Last thing is very natural for you. And i'm glad you considered this and i'm really glad you called me because this could have been a big temptation and it would distract you. It feels good to be wanted and it and it and it looks good on the check the paycheck but you need to be patient and stay with it. You can still pay off debt where you are. It might take you a little bit longer. But in the end you're gonna be way happier and debt for you. Got me your third. Actually thank you so much. I like it. Eight four four seven four seven two five seven. Seven is the number I i wanna unpack this a little bit more because it really is truly a temptation so let me break this down. Another job opportunity that is offering promotion and a bigger paycheck. I'll stay with me. Promotion and a big paycheck. Those are two really enticing. Thinks why promotion makes me feel good. Feel good they want me my shoulders. Go back i. i'm proud of myself. I can tell anybody. And everybody. I know i know this open. And they overran opportunity. It's promotion. i mean. It feels good by the way. I'm not making fun of that. I'm saying i'm trying to give you the emotions so you get to see what's happening.
Jiu-Jiteiros C2C
"first time" Discussed on Jiu-Jiteiros C2C
"I'm happy with designs and everything for the posters and then there was a mass Stickers and matt yet msa was making the posters and then we got. Jj with central valley ditch rolling was central valley. It's made the shirts yes so to everyone will sell. Yeah and victor did such an awesome job on those shirts. Those shirts stickers two percent of the money. Yeah that were that were made. They were so pro high-quality recycling dude. We're better than the usc so bring on us the high clouds i oh man we they they they spent. They spared no expense. I love the quality high quality stuff right right so. Let's let's paint a picture for the for the listeners out there It started off with a little beef between the couple of white. Let's call them yellow belt couple of yellow bell these belts. They're both season. Why these these are some young that year no they just started messing around on the mats and one thing turn into another in a coach asked him if they wanted to have like a super fight and then from there were like what they're going to. I wanna a super too so people kind of just started channel. Eight other or coach suggested certain matchups and it just not from there. You know there was a guy at the gym. Matt hunter shutout who does awesome fucking work. Do your an awesome fucking graphic designer. You made some kick ass posters. You made some kick ass. Chat hooper the printshop. French who made imprint shack. Thank you yeah imprint jack. All right man. We've had that due to shadow and get him some more work duties kick ass. Yeah david soto. Central valley stitch did an awesome job on fairy had a good quality shirts to shirt out. Quick designed came out. He's out the oh. They came out awesome. They came out. Awesome you know. And and not only that he also worked as the mc. And i thought he did a banging job he will he jeff jenkins. Yeah dude yeah. He said the app and david was like like the anchor off. Dude high no right. Hey dave hold my home. I to zero quick while i run this shit. I'm going to run. This is reprogram bro. Just don't touch anything i. It was a solid solid van. Big d was out there. Dillion a also. Why taking some awesome picks. You know we got area. We got all pictures. Mj photography oh shoutout is that what is that. Her handle nj photography ground jay for titles. Yeah we got to tag her unplugged because she is what we're going to have to do it for a tournament and just have her follow us because she has some great victories. You know amazing picture. Yeah so we're for sure gonna have to booker for for a tournament. But so landry. I heard jenkins in hook it up. Don't be gasman. Luke photos gas package. That should be a party peers and photos and you get picks we've made we've been talking about the super fights that went down just a couple of weeks ago march twenty seven. Th i wanna see those two saturdays from from where we're at right now though and you. You both competed on you. Guys both had a match irving you said. This was your first match at bluebell. Tiffany this was your first match. Ever right of aguila. This come about did you..
Jiu-Jiteiros C2C
"first time" Discussed on Jiu-Jiteiros C2C
"Right win like maybe a match to before mine was. I was going to get a gun compete. That's when it started hitting the nurse. Hit and everything. And i try laughing august playing around. You know just having fun with it. So i go there and line up and To get ready to compete that schwinn you feel it. You feel it code. Find out the guy doesn't show some like who are you know a guy didn't show up. He gets tq and so like making jokes about it. How is it tough match ever done. You know just kinda just playing it off the nerves and stuff and instill i you know. I'm like okay so my next match is like in ten minutes sock okay. So i'm thinking my i feel like my nerves have gone like all right. I'm good. I'll be good for the next one. Second match comes up. I get there and i feel the nurse comeback son of a bitch the nurse her back but before i go to the corner why was before and before it can get there this all just like walks in and gets in illinois spot. I'm like okay baucus. Some going the other side so i go to the other side of the table. And he's like ready to go like he's all right. I'm ready to go. He's like on the mat. Ready to go like holy shit having taken off my fucking flip. Wash it and so nervous. But i didn't have time that it really like being nurse when everybody. Yeah it was like when. I was in the military and had jump out of the play for the first time. They're just like okay on the wage. Took me out before. I could even be nervous about it so So i get out there accounts whatever and we start to roll in and the the nerves were there goes nervous but he was and at some point in it. I remember thinking..
Interesting If True
"first time" Discussed on Interesting If True
"I'm your host this week shea and with me is the wonderful. Hi Aaron and this week. I learned that if everyone who smelt it is dead twists poseidon who delta then. We'll dive into that and the patriots segment. Oh my goodness well You should stay away from the beans. He really should well. If you were a fan of the show we originally started years and years ago then. You've probably heard about that. One time i went to scotland and ireland even and ireland. Even just that one time but today i'm also going to tell you about this This one time scotland. But i wasn't there for this. He didn't go into the oldies scottish. Wood carving for your honeymoon. I mean i wanted to but the wife set no so. Apparently she needed time travel amenity. So the pandemic and the incompetency of our last administration made it harder and harder to make ends meet. Our unemployment rates are higher than ever before and access to good healthy. Food is nearly impossible without adding lots of money. So i decided to look back through history and find a story of perseverance. A story of people who when the chips were down pick themselves up and made a new life for them in their family. This story comes to us from scotland in the seventeen. Hundreds when life wasn't nearly as fun and easy as it is now joy. This story recounts the life love and eventual destruction of one sanni. Bean sonawane old ana. Bean sonawane alexsandr sony. Bean was born the son of a poor farmer in the late seventeenth century. Was there other kinds of people in the late seventeenth century cura king. I guess you probably were. You were a great. I guess you still didn't get the healthcare part of the equation but at least it was growing up poor farmer. Swannee felt like his talents. Were being wasted like big time. His talents by the way. We're being incredibly lazy. Oh good. I'm glad we have that in common. So he ran away from home and took to the streets to see if he could make some easy money. It was during this time. He fell in love with a woman named agnes douglas. Who was into the same things as him being lazy and it was kismet. Just just the yield the equivalent of finding yourself game wife. I think so yeah. Awesome awesome so not long after their marriage. Sweeney and agnes. Were run from the town. Oh though exact reasons why are unclear though one source i read claims that agnes was accused of witchcraft. And actually she had the nickname black agnes. Let's put roy. These are good people. Yeah you definitely get a nickname like that. By being an upstanding member of society. blackbeard. Black agnes like friday. Nothing you want now. On their own destitute and alone their luck was about to change while searching for a place to stay the couple kind of found a really big abandoned cave off the coast of south air shire which is kind of southwest of glasgow. Scotland south air. Shire south air shire just above south water shire and right on the same level as south ground shire Yes and self fire. Shyer meyers housing prices. There are real low really are as it's made of fire bay became cave people. They found this. Well it's kind of cave by the sounds of it. It has all these like caves and tunnels that stretch back for about a mile has one singular entrance. That at high tide is completely covered. So you can't get in so it's a great place to drown. Gotcha yeah or set up a hideout a free one as long as you remember food for high tide. That is a pretty good castle. Yeah i think it works well and this is the perfect place for them to start building their family. Inada that totally makes sense. You can have a whole litter of all people get. There has been a couple times. That if i could find a nice cave and no one would bother me. I would go live in a cave a short and get electric and all that stuff but it's cheaper than rent. The rest of us called that period of time. Twenty twenty borrow for a while so swampy and his wife now have a lovely house but they do not have any means to you know make money or eat or do any of that and because he was lacking a trade it was sweeney's plan to support his new wife on the proceeds of robbery. Oh yeah i mean. That's an easy industry to get into your robber. You're a professional just like that. It proved a simple enough matter to ambush travelers on the lonely narrow roads that connected the villages of the area. And you remember. Sweeney was quite lazy and this really seems like the easiest method for making money. They themselves by living off the land Less images of wheat turnips. Fishing rabbits come to mind disabuse yourself that notion. Old taylor claim the means by which the bean sustain themselves whereby robbing any man woman or child unlucky enough to cross their tracks. It turned out though that a lot of these poor villagers did not carry much so it was still really hard to make ends meet yield villager turns to the next yield villager and tries to robin only to learn that. They're both yield poor villagers. Yeah he didn't think this through he really didn't and then also sweeney worried that he could be identified by victims and made the decision not to stop but to kill us victims because that's the easiest. Oh yea i know. That's definitely how you highway men level too little harder to finger someone when you're dead so that helps. I got a promotion from robert murderer so after the bodies were looted and carefully searched. Sweeney had another brilliant idea. Why let this meat go to waste. Nope i'm out. Thank you and good night. Is that level. Three or i dunno final level. What what happened to them a year. You're not gonna get any more use as and the resources available to you can say let me make it worse so once dead. The beans removed the corpse to their lair and chop them up. They satiated their immediate hunger before prudently pickling some leftovers for when time. Oh oh no years past and the family grew oh eight sons and six daughters feeding so they continued in the barbara's practices hunting in iraq to ensure that their corey could not escape. What nope the what. How many people do you have to eat to feed twenty people. Well one estimate puts the amount the family killed nearly a thousand holy crap so if you can see a really nice family barbecue going on if you'd like. Oh wow why are you. So they didn't bother stealing the clothes then. They stole the clothes insult does oh yeah there naked in this picture i cave life is naked life man. Everybody knows that. I guess except this one dude who is apparently wearing a goiter belt made out of sausages wondered what that was two or fingers or penises. Oh those could be. I don't know what they are. The high protein diet seemed to have been very effective as misbehave started to produce little baby beans fourteen little babies babies in total each with very unhealthy. Appetite for human flesh yeah. The babies grew up and intern through incest produced more beanie babies of their own. Oh the cooking increased in size dramatically. I told you it would get worse. We just went straight north of the wall on that Oh yeah yeah. I know we. We had fourteen kids and they started having kids. And now there's more kids and they're all related in their family tree as a wreath. Oh god yeah well. This is all of the terrible. Don't be a cave person. I think is the takeaway. I'm getting so far over two decades generations of beanie. Babies grew up in banana cave. That's the name of this cave. By the way they refined their skills of murderer and cannibal cuisine including the lost art of salting pickling flesh. Oh did prepare for leaner times. Like i said and when their rations would eventually spoil like we all forget stuff in the back of the fridge they would